Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1879, Page 12

L (e S © THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. FROM PARIS TO LONDON. e 1 JANUARY 15, 188—TWELVE PAGES, TRA. dance with your request 1 have aunlyzed the sawplea of ton mbmitted o me, and” have tn report asfollows ————— raburz il theonghoant the whole of | S s e et e umieneies | JIRISH AG RARIANISN, muvaky, awiduw of 5 (aecording to hn-rlmupnrl. ivery sample submitted was earefully exam- conslderably okler u the eyes of those who Ined ginder the microscope cspechile for | hase the holdness torefuse piuning their faitlh foreign orepentjtealeaves. Withtheexceptionof | to offfelal dosuments), who had veceiveid her “ teadduat” and * eoloring matter” the miero- | education in ono of the hest and most arlsto- 8eope revealed no forelgn substance, The cul- | eratle Govonment schools_in 8t. Pets ure, oring matter looked under the mleroscope aa it | who Hved In n splendid aud mazxnbiicently-fur- ft had been rl:nsulrcu on the surface of the tea, | nisbed hovuse, and whore dmwing-room was in the majority of cases without ahy regand tuJ frequented by hizhly-plaeed personazes,—of tho quantity,” The mixture used was composed of { mnale aox exclusively, aml in the morning only. Chinn clay afdl tale for the white color, carhon- | She was tried for forgery with an accomplive ate of lime amd a yellow orgonie coloring | numed Bomlunof, Ball i the amount of 60,00 ter for the yellow color called ' Dutch | rubles was accepted, so that tho curfous were sulphate of baryta and Prussian | avle, during three suceessive mornlngs, to sco ealled *teelestial blue,' for the blue cotor- | the 'ulrrculng prisoner drive up to the court In mg matter, Iy mixing these three substances, | oncof the nentest of earrhages, drawn by neouple China clay, Dutch pink, amd celestial bine, to- | of noble-looking bays. ‘Tl Inst day of the trial gathier, ngreen eoloring matter i obtained. By | & Geaeral in full untform opened the door of hee ple experiment, the approximate pereent- | vehicle when she arrived, helped her ont, guve age of each constituent necessary to pruduce | her his arm, and led her (nto court, where the the green color wus obtaine risoner ook her seat on the hard wouoden Chinn clay or talc... BR.42 Ao Inhospitable whon comparcd to the Duteh pinle.v. oanee » 11,11 | well-stuffed cushions, covered with thick satin, Coleatinl hina... ... . .07 | of her deawing-room furniture or carriage, By ’ —— | her side sat hér aecomplice fu criine, & short, 100,00 | hlack, acramey, ucly, insignificant-lonking crea- ‘The amount of this coloring mixturo used 1s | ture, whose’ [ntelioet keemed a8 narrow, aud from showed ns little to his advantage, his_bouay ONE TO THREE PER CENTUM, did. Tle was shinply her cat’s-vaw, and wus 1t Is mot duncue to ecparate a conslderablo | lorced by Irer to forge the bills for which she amount of 1t from the tca, which tnay be accom- § bad demianded paynient, The personal appear- vlished by shaking tho teain o small plece of | nnce of the femnale prisoner spoke neither In finc muslin over w plece of black paper, when | her favor nor against her. cauty she had the surfuce of the paver will be covered with a | none. A head somewhat too large for a body layer of colorinr matter. of averaize bl prominent oyes of a green- Tle question will naturally be asked Is th fah-bine colory o “tucn-up” 1gse,—not *tip- coloring matter injurions to healthl I a fea- | thied,” but coarsely bent upward,—and u heavy spoonful of green tea be placed In & cup, and | penient double elidn, The forchead, however, Dotling water poured on, o layer of mineral mat- | was Lilieh, broad, and Intellectual. ‘Ihe dolects teg eaught up in an cmulsion will be eeen to | of lier outward appearance were all forgotten— 1t on the surface; this Inger wo drink when | 80 every witness snowed—{n tho chaem of her green tea fs used, It fs true that the majority | nuanner, her conyeransional powers, lier wit, and of the mineral matter sinks tothe bottem of the | her remarkable proficiency In the art of flattery. cup, but the quantity held In this Jayer which | 8he was well read, an_adinirable perfurmer on floats on the teg, which con easily he seen by | the plano, and & good lingulst. trying the experiment, I8 not liiconslderuble The story of the Interesting widow—in so far, As the pereentage of Prassian bluo p fsx0 | at any raie, ns her appearance as prisuner at very sminll, when we vonsider that **celestiul | tho biur was concorncd—is as fullowa: In the blue” only contains about one-third of this | month of February, 1870 she was at an evenin substance, ita effeet upon the human system, | party at the houss of Mr, Polevoy, o mun wel even by Its contintied use, could searcely bo ap- | known In Iussian literary circles, She had preelable, as It Is itself a more or loss mild sub- | made Polevoy's ucq}unlmnucu through hia chit- stanve, being often used fn cases of fever, and | dren’s governess S\r ho wua an otd school com- posscalng tonle properties when used Iu small | pnuion of hers), whom slie occaslonally visited. quantitics, Nuobody conld” have helped being favorably fmi- Thy yellow coloring matter, which is called rrmufl by a lady who, while abls to drive about Duteh pluk, Is composed, as stated, of earbonate | {n her own earringe, could still find time to cul- of Hine and a yellow principle usually extracted | tiyato the fricndsnip of a poor governess, Such from the willow. 'This substance, which ouly | qualities are rare amorg the ler sex, who constitutes part of the Ditch pink, may be left | frequently sullce from a deficiency of momory wutof consideration when considering the Ju- | when cafled upon to_recognize poor friends or Jurious properties of the coloring matter. needy relatives. At Polevoy's party the prlvon- The whole queastion resolves itsell into n | er met three brothiers Pastouchof, all of whomn simple question of fact: 1 the minersl matter | were charmed with ber manner amd the used (Independent of the Prussian biue) admirable way in which sha plaved INJURIOUS TO HEATIC whist. She “was particularly omlablo by its contfnued use [ cun only say that when | with the sccond brother (n singlu man), and, it Is possible to obtain a green tea direct from | on golng home, requested n Lo accumpany Chilna, free from added coloring motter, wo hud | hee.” When they had reached her houso she butter cncournge its impurtation in this pure | ordered her carriare Lo drive Iastouchof home, state rather thau lo vontinuo using green te and, thanking il for lis ninlubility, expressed Colured tea fs soll in this markot slng a lLope that he would soon pay hera visit, beeanso Its color {s pleasing to thebroker or tho | Pastouchol called next day, and thus commenc- grocer, for the person who Urinks toe teararely, | ed an acquaintance which ended in his falling If uver, sces the cotor of it befure it 1s uuuml In love with the charininz widow. A year and 1nto the cup to be drank. a holf after his first Introduction be ccased to ‘The samples of tea examined were as follows, | frequent ber house: wos taken i1l next winter, all of which were colored: and died inthe following December, Boma No. 1. Young Ifuson, Infertor, much dust, sixteen inonths before his d.ath he confessed No, Young Hyson, no furelen leayes. 10 his elder brother that bhe had lost 170,000 No. 8. Young yson, no foreign leaves, rutfes (k. e, £20,000) to Mrs, Artemovsky nt No. 4. Japan, fulr quallty. cords; that he hodt paid ber fn full; and thut No. 5, Younzz i1yson, no forelgn lcaves, now lig was extremely unxions to vreak off the No. 6. Yonug 1lyson, ho fureign lenves. sequatntanee, but that she gave bini no peace, . Japan, good gialicy., aid eontinually kept sending him wvitatlons to No. 8. Young Hyson, no forefen leaves. her house. “Ihe elder brother advised iim to Na, 0. Youne llysou, to foreign leaves, v 1o notlee to her entreativs, awd his good No. 10. Gun powder, no forelgn Jeaves, adylce was followed, During the itiness of the Respectfully, decensed, however, tho prisouer did all in her HENRY A, MorT, JR., Ph, D., E, M. power Lo procurs an interview with bim, but TIE FOLLGOING EAMPLES ulleds wero purchased fn rotail sroceries, such ns per- [ A few weeks after Nicholas Pastouchol's suns af noderate tcomes iircluse from, ‘The | funcral, Mra. Artemovaky wiote to the youveer prices per pound at which enclt sample was sold | Urother, requesting o to cull on bey na she |, were a4 followa: No. 1, 80 centss N 3 Ni desircd to spenk to him on business, When he 8, 50 centa s No, 4 50 centss No saw her sho duformed him that she had three 0, $1.25; Nu. 7, 815 No, 8, 81,95: No. 0, 81, 'Nog. | Dills in her pusaession, which she nd obtalned 8'and 9 were_bought ot Tashionablo Brondway | f70m the deceased for money he had borrowed grocerles, No. 10 wos obtained drom un am- | OF hero The sum total came to 69,060 rubles, porter, but the retall prive of that variety fa | Besfes belng struclc by the fact that his broth- er.n pound, er, who bad Iert a fortune of £130,000, should e ———— have borrowed money from o comparative RUSSIAN LADY CRIMINALS. siranger, the yuuxm-st'l’nuulwhofl on examin- Kiling Not Ttegnrdod ns 8o ad ns Forgligm Ing the stenatures to the bills,—of which there Fomnle Murdorers Acquittod—ForgeraSont were three,—discovercd that they lore no re- sem’ lunee to the hamdwriting of tho deceascd, to-mborin~A Very *Charming?” Widow— The Caso of Mrs. Artemavaky, “The noxt day the bills wers taken away from her by orded of the Procurator Fiscal, examined &t. Petersburg Correspondence Iandon Siandord, Female murdcres seem to fare pretty well In by cxperts, and declared by them tu be forgerics, When questioned as . to liow, and from whom,- she had procured the Russla, or have douo so hitherto at nny rate. bills, ahe was inenutious enough to declare that Tuey, or thu .advocates who capoused their causy, lave Invariabiy succceded b finding the way tothe solt corner in the learts, or perhups thoy wers glven to her dircetly by the duceased htmsell. "Foe question, therafore, turned upon heads, of the jury, and o verdict of aegilttnl hod'bieen tho result ou ol ocenslons, Thus, whether sl or the Jata Pustonchof hud com. mitted forgery—she by funitating what she con Kalrova, who attempted to slice up another woman with o carving-kalfe, slinply beeanae the sidered bis handwriting, lio by makiog use of & slgnature diifering sicoully from Wisown, It latter happeued to bo the wife of a man thatthe murderess bhad falken s faney to, was foumd wus proved by witnesses on both sides, inelud- oz tho prisoucr herself, that the deceased was not gullty. 8ho atierward distinzushed hereelf in Servig, whither sito wos sent ns correspondent fneapablo of dom unything of the kind, Ot a of o 8t. Petersburg dally newspaper—and wus nature modest, retiring, und shy, with a consid- crablegmount of self-esteem, hie was ldvally— petted and carressed—in print, at auy rote—by n good muny of the Russlan volunteers In Bel- almost’padantically—honest and trutnful, ~Mis grade, who expressed thelr admiration for a word given, ho liked keeping it, notonlyin the bejog that had the courage of putting her plelt, but to tho letter, Onc of those unfort: nate men A ho seem doomed to dissppolntinents principles (such os they were) Into practlve. The caso of Kinflova soon followed. This and disenzhantments during the whole of thelr woman murdered her lover while e waa pstecp short earthly coreer, he yeo bud sucl strouy fulth In the goudness of huwnu nature that by stouting him through the head with o ro- volyershe hud found in his pocked, While lic remained benevolens and conliding o tho end, s lores incomo ol £10,000 awmting the verdiet of the jury sho was fn ex- cullent splrits, and expressed her convietion a yesr bo constlered positively burden- some, and spent littlo more” than @ tenth of juon himeelf, The generosity of his nature was evinced i his relusing to prosecuto bis secratmry—on the wround thut’the man was that slio would get off, just as Kalrova had done, Her words turned ot o be too true. Bame flaw, hiowever, was discovered by tna Jmperil Senatoin the way thecase wwus conducted, and she wus again tried, and by 8 new jury, and uealn married and had children—who had robbed him of £1,600, after having, s few weeks presiously, acquitted, The case of Vera Bassuliteh differed troin cither of the preceding in several particu- recelved a prescut of £2,000 from the very same Pastouchof to buy a bouse with, The man'a base {nirratitido wag adecn blow to Pastouchor’s wentle and coullding soul. By woman, however, whom be had always lars. She bad no pursonsl feeling nxainst the man whom sho tried to kill, whilo the victim— repoll—was & man heartily dishiied by ol society for his arrouancs and vole srarity—qualitics not ususual i self-made men. ideallzed, hy was destined to e atiil more crucl- Thew her advoeate very cleverly touched upon Iy docelved. o always feared lest his furtune, oud not himself, might be the objuct of attrue all her aufferlngs fu the past; upon the many tmonths that the poor youns girt hud passed in tiou In woman's eyes,~—whlle, in Mra, Artemoy- #kv, who was rleh hersel?, who scemud to aced no one's wioney, aud who showed thut slio was not indifferent to him, ho thought e hud et with tho disinterested creature ho bad so loug soueht for, o was soon panfully undoce]: anil the blow proved too strome for hls in urlson, regarded us a dancerous Biate cruninal, cre shewus out of her teanss upon the difffeult- les sho everywhero encountered in attempting to curn sn hunest livelibood atter she wos found sentirely fnnocent ' of tho charces brouwht aguinat her 08 o politieal offender—the Jury - were touched to the quick, uind Tu the sufferce siunablo and secretive nature. Whethe: an Hko that could have committed lorgery wus lost sight of the erlminal, Bho was deterimined 10 be revengzed upon oue who had ordered o de- tho question the jury hod to ceclde. ~ It thoy consfdered hln Incapable of such o crime, tho cudlt full upou the orisoner und lier uccomplice, Beveral teathuonials, one from o Senator, anothor s N to be florked, and lad not been Lshed for so dolng, ‘The verdics of sequittal with the sporoval of nine persons out vl iy Russian soclety, who certulnly dad not from ascrens hichiess,—aclther of whom g peared In couri,—as tu her unnxwpummbr: rewarid it 08 a mircartiuge ol justics, although it might bave been ot Juw, charueter, werd read o court, but only served, it muse_bo confesscd, to prejudico the jury sgainst her rather thun for her, ‘The evidenco B0 much for the futo of thoso smong the gen- tler scx i Russia who wurder, or attempt to murder, sod who, cven after avowiug thelr of ths Senator, o man Bauied Tornau, was amnus. foz und Irrelovant in the extreme, He contessed crime, sre fouud by a jury of thelr countrymen not 1o have committed it With female fore- ho kuew nothine of the ollls fu questivn, but cunsldered that the whole case had' been raised by tho prosecution siinply for the purposs of crs, however, 14 bus fared much harder, Tha heurts of the jury, whereswindliseg 13 coucerned, ure us unimuressionuble -as ot The famous putting erab @ hizhiy-placed personages triul of Mother Metrovhants, lu Moscow, several n the wituess-box. In spite of such doughty de- fenders, however, the ludf and ber accomplica yoars ao, wod & cane In pomt, This boly Ab- Lews was regarded with feelings of the decpest wero found guilty, und seitencod Lo be deprived of thelr rizhts us ctizens, t have thelr property contiscated, and to four years' resldence fu Biberla, Amoug the witiicsses for the prosectis cution s u imun of 40, who had slried bills veuesation by the utry, while o lurce cluss of Jadies und gentlewmen wWhose outward plety was_unexceptivnisble, I cd up to her us o sort of Pope in pettico: ‘T'ho wristocratic repres sentativos of seligious cant, however, fn spits to tho exient of 1,000,000 rables, snd whoso pruperty, belng | valued at 1i¢ rubles, fetched” 6 rubles wuen suld by auction. The trial was alio remarkabio from the fact that the uvublic orosceutor, Frince Urousof, whose powerful spevet had great | of briuging great intlucucs to beir upon the cune, were Inuble to suve the veneratw! wotter frow belng wried for furgery, lko crninats of courser clay, ‘The signaturce sne Imituted wers thoss of decensed persous, clibolly plous yiers chuuts, whom she hud Kuown durlug hife, “The flucnee on the jury, had becn ons of tne most fatnous barrlsters in Moscow, whills the counsel noney procured fn torguig witls sho spent, vot upon hersell, but upou the monastry of which for tho prisuner hnd Tutely béon u publle pross- cutor, A juryman was taken il durlng the trlal, aud was replaced Ly ouns of ths two who aro lfiuat in redorve fn cuse of accident, aud who are present from tho beginnlug to the end of the case. 1t f» strunwo thut thers was hardly a single serious teading articls ju the whole of thy Bt. Potersbure press regurding o Interest- sl waa Abbeds i upon the coustructionof un in- | fog o truly while of seudletons and carlcatures tiemury, and the foundativn of a school, Every was of opiuien thut a wowun of “her Dbugh relitious stunding, ths favorite of the defunct vopular Metropolitan of Moscow, Phitarct, und one woo, ad she Grove Up 1o COuRL cvery day (o ber carrlage, fotinl a lurge crowd collected in the strects wwalting ber blessine, would nover be tuere wero dozens, 1618 su inuch easler to scoff condeisned by twelve orchodox Russians, ways be pleaty of people anxious for amuse- ment. Learing scrip haa worked larastio to many of the neavilg-salarycnt-emploses, the elty shonld. In justice to such, and as an act in the line of honhesty, add Interest to its notea (serly) for this year, and so long as ft must jssue the same. This 13 what all men do to make their notes re- ccivable; why not the city? PutLo. THR TRRATRES - evidently don't fesr any follinz-off in their an- diencer, Tho number of entertalnments pro- vided for the fortunato was never greater or more varfed. At the old Drury and Covent (iar- den they are busy with the usital grand vanto- mimes.” “Jack”—ho of the Beanstalik—is the hiero at “the Garden”; und *Cinderella, or Tlarlequin and the Little (iass Siipper,”” will be the attraction at Drury Lane, ‘*Jack the Glant-Killer™ has ° becn chosen for the ~ Galety pantomime, while at Ashlex's (now 8anger’s) the ordinary hi dramstic programine will be suuplemented by the spectacular portfon of * Richand 1IL" (in which, ns the_advertisements grandiloquenti; announce, * White Surrey, the noble steed. will be glain beneath his Roral master”), At most of the other Iheatres the bills are” fitled with adaptations from the French, The Lyceutm 2 n remarkable cxception. Itis to reopen vn the d0th, nnder the maungements of uo less a person than Henry Trsing, who wlil play tho title-role of *lininlet" as hie of all living nctora best knows how to, The Ophiel/a in the revival is Etlen Terry,—n lady far better suited to the part thao 1ratiel Bateman, who played It when 1 last suw ** Hwmnlet** in London. Harrr MeutzaR. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Testatancs to Tnercaseil Tazation, Cn1caqo, Jan, 13.—To the Ilonoralle Common Councilaf Chicago—UeSTLEMEN : Though I'write nnonvmously and fn the first person singular, 1 betleve I express the views of very many of the taxpasers of this cily. § have lived in the ity over thirty years, und always pakl all my taxes, though for the past few years [t haa taken nearly tho whole of my pct incomne. Idesire to con- tinue to do so, in hopes of better times, But, if the Counuil shouhl proceed to fucrease sal- aries and expenses ut this tinie, when present sataries will” buy maore than ever befure, I, with inuny others, will be compelled to fight vur taxes or let our property go to sale. TAXPAYER. ‘Tho Narthern Pucifio Country. To the Editor of The Tribune. Darrox, Wis.. Jan. 18.—Will you pleasc in- form a nmmnber of readers of your DatLY TRIBUNE through its columns os to the de- slrabllity of the Northern Pactile Railroad coun- try for youniz men with Ifinited capital to emi- grate tot Where can homesteads e had from {{overnment that are sdapted to general farme ingd How nearthe Natwust Park fu Yellow. stone Valley does the Nosthern Pacific Rallroad line run, and how near the park can s desira- ble humesteai be takenl I8 there any proba- bility of n city being builtat the park in the near future, sav three years heneed I there is, would not that bea good vlace to locate if there is aoy facming land therel When is the best thne to go, ete.d Please givo o general description ol the couutry up there, os to clmate, soll, markets In prospect, and oblige, respect ully, vours, J. B. Gnree: ' We would respectfully refer Mr. Green and other Inguirera to Mr, L. P, Hilllard, local agent of the Northern Pactile Railway at Chicago, or to Mr, Sargent, General Superintendeut, St. Paul, Mion., both of whom are perfectly cont- petent to give ull the juformation deslred.—Ep, Tnuxe.) Trickery in " The Cup that Cheers, but Not Ine- briates.” Railway Reflections and Observa- tionsessA C;:-r_ on the Dieppe ine, The Crimes of a Year Committeg by Agricultural Tenants in the Emerald Isle, ‘Whnt Are Kindergartons? Ta the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaco, Jan, 14.—Althouch these institu. tions are multiplying with advancing years, and the word *kindergarten” {s losing much of its newness and becom'ng familtar to almost every- boily, yet few people as vet have any proper conception of the rcal nature and purposes of this new system, while a fow rezard It with sus- piclon as an Innovation upon old methods. It is not, however, mercly an Improvement. in former methods of educatlon, but an entirely new departtire,—n gystem by Jtselt. 1t beging upon an cntirely different Jevel from our pres- ent system of educatton. It has todo with truo meatal physiology and the power and value of ql.\‘ v tafuing wpon tha child-hears and child- rali. Rindergartners nre a sort of professional peo- ple,—artists, too, In a certnin rense,—who study the grand possibilities which Ite in embrso in cvery child’s 1olind, and who take Into their hands these litile vitalized lnm‘us of plostic clny and endeavor to mold and fashion thein {uto something true and beautiful, smuothing out the ronghnesses and rounding them fnto perfect aymmetry of character, From lack of sufliclent intelligence, [ am not able to answer the question which forms the caption of tha urticle, as I hove had mere wlimpses of ouly two kindergartons which wonil be consklered pure. uncorrupted, unper- verted expononts of the true icas of the avs- tem,—one, the Dickinson-Dowd Kindergarten, of Hochester, N, Y.; the other, the North La- 8alle Kindergarten, of this vity, under manaze. ment of the Misses Annie and Mary llowe. ‘There are many others, no doubt, which are as clear exponents of the true fdea of Frochel ns theses while on the otlier hand manv corrup- tluns of the fdea exist from which false lleas of the theory emanate. But the question is nsked {n good faith, hopiog that some one who 13 competent to do 8o willl come forward with an intellleent exposition of the ideas which form the basis of this system, T would like niso to inquire of eome one who Is authoritv, 1f books or lessons (according to the aceepted Idea of lessonx) are ndinissible in tho unververted kindergarten, And s niot the cxpression *kindergarten eckool a misnomer!? And what ore the so-called *connceting classes "' I am sure the public will take wreat Interest In sume well-defined and correct {deas concern- ing this uew and beautiful system of child- tealniog, Who will respond INQuiRgit. Englishmen Abroad---My Fellow- Travelers---A DBrandy-Bot- tle Romanco. How the Marder of Lord Lsitrim Loy April Appears to Have Increaseq the Bpirit of Lawlessness, - New York World, The year which closed Tucsday will jon, famous in tho annalsof Ireland as thay of the atsansination of Lord Leltrim, his clerk, o car-driver, 8 murder which lins caused ng Whde and deep excltement as did the first Dutably “agrarlan criine,” the doing to death byy muriderer never discovered of Lord son of the execrated Judwo that Emmet. Tho ||Intur')'o( these outrages, fey, tha time lie was shot while walking wiln 1, steward [n the plantations of Dartow Appe forty years ago to-tuurrow, down to the trip)) tragedy of Cratlogh Wood on tho 2d of Agy Inst, waa told In detall {n the Vor'd, but fger. est Iu tho gencral subject hns been revireg by tho publication ot the Irish criminal an) Judicial statistics for the year, anid we hayy taken the pains tocull from the columns of gy Irish exchanges durlng the summer Mustrg tlons that may lend additlonal significance 10 the figures, Drunkenness Is stiil asslgned gy THA LEADING CAUSE OF CRIME in the Green Isle, As to iznorance, some sk, ing fucts are adduced, Of the méu and by cominitted to the Irish Jolls as ordinary cri, Inals last year,—tho statistics ara for 1377, gy the rocclal report on agrarlancrline comes dowy to Juue 50, 1378, —13.7 per cent could nelfhyy read nor wrhv. ‘the proportion in Eugland ooy 20.%, and In France 23.0. Of thoee that coul read and write well, the proportion In Irela was 41.1 per cent, whlle In England and Wajey it waa only 1. 'As to men and bovs mpey, Ieetly educated, In Ireland tho percentaze wy 9"'! 18.1, while in England and Wales jt wyy 63,4, Men of superfor education aceused of crime are: In Ircland, 0.8 per cents In Englany 0.3; and In France, 4.8, There sre ns atrng contrasts in the case of the females. In lmuni 54.8 per cent of the women and girls were whol. Iy uneducated, rs compared with 50 n Fragee and 34 in Koglaud and Wales; while 03 to tho, that could read and write well the percentage ig Irelana was 23.2, and ncroas thu channel only2y INDICTANLR OFPENSRS, On the total numberof indictablo offensesly an equal population, Ireland has a great aivag. tage over Eugland, the tures belng rounily g twenty-five for Irgland aud thirty-sour for 'ty slster country, but th ratlo (s not sustafned jo most of the classea. England’s excess in Inryely nade up of theft, and siwilar oifenses, and jn the lorger Island there f8 0 bad pre-eminence of crities sgainge women, and olfenses avaiug property withont violence, not maliclous f character. On tho other hand, offenses agalng 1ife, assaults, and riots are relatively much more numerous fn the land of the shillelagh. Simyle riots are llty times wore frequeat in Ireland than in England. An Irishmon will assauit s polleeman elghit times wire an Eoglisliman will once, and tho provortion of general assagl| malleious offenaes against property, aud offenses agalnst life is much larger—in the lase case tha excess 880 per cent—among tho Celta than amoug the Baxons, While the country districts furnisi the greatest vercentage of grave criwes, the great mojorlty‘of the sinaller offenses arg repurted from the towns, More than balf the indictable offenses not disposed of sunumarily iy Ireland (3,203 of 6,328) touk piace In the Dubliy metropolitan chstrict, which far exceeds Lendon 10 the matter of smoll thefta, Dublly has one sixteenth of the rponulnmun, and while the aver ngil: of oitenaes of this graver sort 18 fu the wholy 1eland less than twelve tu every 10,000 souls, in Dublin it js nincty-seven. A8 TO AGHARIAN CRIME, 1t has been rising steadlly sines in 1875 it renched 8 minimum of 183, tho lowest revorded for many years, cxcept in the abnurmally peaceful seasan of 1800, whon only 87 offeuses of this class were iecorded, Tue taxinum waos u 1570, 1,220, From 136 in 18 rosu to 201 in 157, and 246 {u 1t he it hulf of 1873 gave 115, s against 189" duriug the same period {n ISTFhllhlch would nuieats for the year u total of 230. O this increase the re- port says that it ia * accounted for by the ine .creasc of 23 |u luthnidation by threatcuwg notices or other causes, and of 13 fn crimes aguinst human 1ife, lucluding the murds the Eurl of Leftrlm, his clerk, and car-driver, on tho 2d of Apeil. Up to that period the enimes of Iutimidation had” diminished by 11 in thoe threa montly ,Sal;qequenuy they increased by B—ohe of thd pad cousequences Lo bo expeeted from such a trightiul criime—so that the in- crease nppears Lo bave arlseu from that crime, and tho use made of it for tho purpuse of fos tinidution" Oow the Tealeal Is Prepared in Chisa, and Colored to Gralifly lzmorant Frejudice. Arrival at London Bridge—Christmas and Christmas Weather—Skat- ing in the Parks, Lie Tem---The Discoveries Re- sulting from Chemical Analysis. New York Erentng Post, Next tobreml (heranre few articles whoso consumption & more general than that of ten} hence ita purity is n matter of deep interest to milllons of people. There s scarcely » honse- hiold, however humble, that does not use tea once a day, and it may be feclingly bu nsked: Whatlshome witbout 8 teapot! To determine whether the public is falrly treated by the pro- dnceraand importers of tea, the Erening Lost has abtalned analyses of a number of samples baught at retail grocerles, the results of which aro given berewlith, The difference Iiythe taste and bouquet of the teas uenally sold in this country Is nimostwholly due to the different methods used In preparing the leaves for the consumer, For instance, it {s enmnmon to speak of black and green tea as ale nivst distinet specles of the tea plant, yet green teaand black tea ean be made from the same plant, the products of the two processes befng apparently absolutely distinct from each other in appearance, taste, aud sincll. Indeed, there are two kinds of hiack tea (so-called), one of which retains its black color when steeped fn hot water, while the other hecomes green ngain, A brief sketeh of thio methods of tea-making will show Low this Is done. DLACK TEA PROPER, that is, souchong, pekoe, conzou, ete,, or what we Enelish call break{nat tes, lsntnernil)‘ picked from plants {n the ountainous regtons of Chlna, where the shrub, prowing nwong rocks and ledges, hus o struvgle for existence, ninl acquires a inore hardy character than it dos on the t-fertilized level lands und cultivated valleys, ‘Theo tons ure made black by the pro- cess of fermentation that they are put throueh hefore helng cured, As belore atated, the saine Teaves could bo made into ercen-colored tea 1€ differently treated, though thelr flavor would _not™ resemble the ordinary green tens, When the leaves have been ullowsd to ferment In beaps for about twelve hours, they ure tossed aboul by hand, underguing n constant, rolling apd winuowinig, and are then rossted over a slow fire. ‘Thoy are agalu tossed about and_ rolled, exposed to the alr for a time, and finally dried over a charcoa! fire. The dlfferent gradca are then obtabed by sitting and carcful bond-pleking, Almost the same process 1s used teas, which, though apparently black, ly ggreen teas; the importunt diiferenve in the prearation of ovlong 14 that there fs no fermentation of the leaves. Meuce there s no chemlcal actlon tu change their colur perma- nently, and, though black when bougnt, it quickly resuincs {ts green color when steeped. GUECEN TEA —the sunpowder, imperial, young hyson, hyson, aud twonkay ten—i4 on (mposition from the start, llonestly it could never rench a ligher clalm to he calléd green than colong iteclf, hut such a domand exists for arthllelally-colored tea that the coloring proviss ts applied whils enting the leat 1 Chlna, uill the practice hns now bo- cotne su general that'ft 18 probable that nothing will ever cause its ‘Ulscontinnance, Yet this coloring-inatter not anly adids nothing tntrinsies ally to the tea excen? welght, hut it contains onv of thy dendtiest {mlsonn knowr, For the sake of o pretty outdilie, therefore, the world contentedly consents'"to drink annually thou- sumds of pounds of Peuselon hiue, of which prussic acid 13 one of lthe coustituents Green ten is thus made: At the usual pieking thnes, of which thefhro three and sometioes four o vear, the llcl\lfl‘}l g0 it the ten country from the const, takin®'nil the neeessary utcusile fur curlng the ten, 30 cn a dealer cricamps I a ulstrles hie buys the tea from the producers for several miles nmunl!l and procecds to make what Is called 7 A “o Misery in the Metropolis-..London Chirist- mas-Amnsemenis-—The Panto- mimes=-ltenry Irving. Nothury, Achiencey Foeetal Carvespondenca of The Tribunts Lowpun, Dec. 21.—A friend of mino, once happening to run agalust u Dissentiug minfster at the Bal Valentine, inquired what brought him tn that den of monotonous infquity. * Looking for charncter," sald the virtuous pastor. Where- onmy friend deily remarked, “Ahl there'sa. good deal of that lost about here.” People doa great mavy doubttul things under cover of this » jouking for character,’” It faa most conven- fent excuse, but for all that I won’t take refuge ‘behind It If you ask me how it coines that Lusunl- 1y travel third-classwhen I tuke myanoual Christ- mins-trip from Paris to London. The aulding motise is of & very i{erent order, and will cer- tainly suguest itself to your intefligent mind without my prompting, I might say 1 preferred 1t 1o second, but I don’t—in winter, at least; or I might sct it down to princivle—which has notbing whatever to do with the matter, 1 assure you. The third-class carriaes on the line to Dicppe are sovillainous that nothing but = hem! Well, at oll events T do travel in the unaristo- cratie way I have mentioned, oud sumetimes find it PARTICULATLY AMUSING, Directly yon turn your back upon the lazy and fmportunate blue-bloused offlcfuls at the St Lazaro Station, you enter, as it were, o new world, The smoky carriaze in which you are belng whirled away Rotenwards might, for sil you coutd find from fnternal evldence to con- tradict the suppusition, be the property ot an English company, not a French one. English sounds fall upon the ear, Knglish !ncc{ staro at yours, and tho very udors of French benndy that ere Jong assalls your nostrils s, by association, Eng You have smelu it (if you shnre my privilege of being o Cockney) a hun- dred times on Sabbath-cxcurslons from Lundon 1o Brighiton, and in holiday-runs to 'Ampton or TAstiugs. You have beard those slangy jokes before, and kuow the sntique prejudices re- vealed from thne to time 1o the eouvereution. Apropos, let mo give you a specio A Gent to Anviher Gent—' D'ye 'ear, "Arryl Aud us over one of thewm saudwiches and the Co-nlack," The Other Gent—"% Right you nre, Juck. It's ust proper stufl, 1 can tall yer. Taint lko bat nasty red wine they give you over 'ere.”’ A Young Maid of Sieeet Sevenleen—(Arouzed By the reinark)—" No mora it uin't. "I can't ear that stutl, Thero aln’t notnink Hke adrop o' Co-ninck, is therel” A A Betting Man to a Pal the distance)— # Been down to 8hantilly lutely, otd man{” Tai—** Went down for the eup.” Diffident Man to Sweet Seventecn—'"D'yer object to smokin’, Missi" Chorus of’ Ma ea—* What "orrid tobacco they give ser in Purisl” Fiteetera, eleetera. 1f by any chance there happen to bo a stray Gaul in the compartinent, ho fluds binself, as it ‘were, lost, swsllowed up, ANSUILATED, in this forelen and barbarons atmosphere, Tnt enerwdly the Guul, who is not o great travele 13 conapluuously nf;snu:, avg the honor of s country s torn to tatters and never w word of Temonstance. ‘The_other pight, bowever, I wos fortunate oaougli to journey witha natlve,—n youngslugor from the Opera. He revealed bimecif to us niter his wige: The Cockuey gontiemnn who had Lren indulgivg in willicisws of the Whou, Eunnu! style for some thoe, had grown weary of It, atid, to vary the entertuinment, hod struck up a musie-hall chorus, Well, the child ot Art stood It for o few minutes, atfectlug to stumber, but at Just it got tuo paluful, He euddenly burst forth inton glorlous barltone alr from the * Huguenots,” worklug himscif up eradn- ully from a low undertone ton rleli, {ull flow ot uatural song that dfswued the asinlue chorlsters ingtrice. When he ceased there was silence for a moment, followed by prolonged applause, (The Cockuey waketh no “music, but he apore- ciateth it {u othicrs, to give him hisdue.,) Really amore erittenl audience might have done the same, for young Schawowel’s barituno promiscs o be ono of thy best In Parls. Amangat our other companions was a falr Britlsl circus-rldor, with u protty face amt o talile weakuess for Co-niack, who was abpar- tly ou the best ol terms with o fut and beavy youth sitting vext her fn the corner of the car, "Phey fiirted Uesperately from Pars to Rouen, drunk out of the same buttie, and jolned fv oc- cuslonal burats of sentiinentnf sonz,—result pre- sumasbly of :8id bottle,~which did not pre- veut the lady from eowly Lhrowing the younge wau over ut Dieppe and taking up with the bari- tone. To bo sure, she dropped him too bofora wo reaclied Newhaven, and revested to her orfelnal attachnent. There wos ANOTIER INTERRSTING CHARACTER 1n our compartment! & younyg gentloman, wtat 16, brotucr to this fickle fair one. Except in Beotiand 1 never met 8o fmperturbatle and self- vosscased b pordon of his years, Probably ho wus used 1o his sister’s artlvss ways, At sll ovents, le made 8 wouderful sbow of phllosophic indilferencs whiie tho senti- ment was gushing so sbundantly In the corper. Mis very soul scemed ob- sorbed i tiie enjoyment of kome desperatelys bad clzars, Hu dmoked steadily, nor did ho wink an eye even when the clumsy and clownlsh swain, cinboldened by repeated” doses of Co- Iack, went the length of putting bis ann round lus tnnsaratu’s N Under thomusical influences fudlreetly brought to' beur upon b, titeen thawed ahghtly st or_near Kowen. 1o touk 1o hununini soltmn #natchus to himeelf, (i u meditative munner, be- tween the whitle, ALY safid he, fu o enlinly- contldent tone to the Freuchman, alter one of these dirge-Mke und doleful exerclses, * Wo are merry I Focland,” - Aod he subsided into ¢l-] gars und meditativa gloom, looklng, as the buritone subsequently observed to e, for all :.j!h; world like an undertuker’s asslstaut—on uty. Un, le phiegine Britannique! " Very pleasaot s the ready olacrity of the parters bt London-Bridee Statlon aiter the klcepy “uppiancss” of tho Gore St. Luzars of- ficiais, What thouzl it be lueplred by the thirst for “gips,""—vackshicesh 18 au institution everywhere, in Paris wore than here, indec Less delizhtful, however, was chunge Arvom the brichi, wintry nsbect of Pavis to TILE AWFUL AND I{OFELESS DESOLATION of the (reat Metroplls, The weather wus good enough ot Newhaven, but us we advanced Lon- donwards, the alr grew murkler snd murkier, il 8t Bermondsey wo tound ourselyes wrapped in the horrld atmaosphics of alpea-soup fow, Lon- ddon-Brivge termins had the'look of *a buitonis less pit. “The foig got Into our eyes aud made Lhein viuart, Into our nosus and made us snevie, undd Lnstly fuvbed our ch where doubtivss it Jnid the foundations o1 a cheerful brooehitls or lullammation of the ungs. Later in tho duy the ped-sonp consutency of the atimosphery chgnged. We had black fop in the place of yellow, We have yellow agaln now, aceumpas uled by suow au juch o two deep, aud bitter murrow-plercibg cobl. The. s in the parks i from thrce to scven tnches thick, For tbe tist tnie this wauy u year London bas been uble to enjoy sumertnng like a tale wmount of skuting weatlier, dume 20,000 people dutted the sure Our Spring Electinns, To the Editor of The Tribune. CnicAco, Jan, 14,—It I8 very necessary that the people become sroused to the fact that in a few months they will be ealled upon to chooso one-halt the Common Councll. Threo years a0, surfeited with ['cople’s party and Colvin- {sm, our citizens selected o Councll, two-thirds of whom were men of reapectability, property, and intelligence. The horizon looked dark, credit wos lost, and a condition of atlalrs ox- Isted which you remember, aud beggars deserip tion. The Evana and Phillips crowd had openly thwarted the publicintention by stufng the ballot-boxes of the town election and declaring ¢lected men whoss names never appeared be- fore the public as candldates. Tax-cating had becomo so gricvous o burden that, cormorant- Iifie, it was cating up the very vitala of tho property of thecity, These men assumed a wreat responsibility in trying to restore honest Government, _and they did it nobly oud well. Each one has Jeft a goud reputation and on, honoranle name, In 1877 onc-liall of tha then Counell went out, some with the old, but many new ones were elected, and the number that year on_ the slde of law, order, and houesty” was about twenty. In 1878 another olection was had and tha nimber decrensed, so at the present about acventeen are men who ean be relled upon and who are free {rom any saapiclon of rings or dis- bonest collusion. It'ls Lighly nportaat that wo have & Council thenajarity of which will not by for spoll and plunder,rings,and obstructing legis- Iation, ‘This can only be accomplished by per- sonal effurts of the gond citlzena at the primary electious aud convention, ‘Thero Isno use gloss- ine this question over, nor giving it no atten- tion. Ifthe citizeus want honest government, thev must sttend to . the mastter, The' people must wako up or a st of propertyl redlawnas will be clected, and tho good works nchieved by the Councils of 187, '77, and 98 will bo Jost, At the same election 3 Mayor 18 to be chosen, 1le shoukd be a man of :gomd, practival knowl- edee of city afTairs, tried and Known to possess the avllitics to 01 the Excentivo chalr. It should make no dilferenca from what section or ward he cowes, or whether the miseruble and unmitizated fraud known us a caucus’ chooses him,—a man of culture, & genticmun who would haya the tact to overn and tho talent to devise und create, ilo should be in the prime of life, with all the vitality, energy of imanhood, and the conversation which comes from a well- batanced mind. A man of theso merlts will make o good Mayor, no matter from what part of the city be comes. CiTizeN. OUR TRADE WITIL JAPAN, An Interview with Minister Bingham on Our Commerciul Rolutions—No Trouble Apprehended s the Result of Chineso Imwmigration, Correspondence Netw York World, ‘WasHINGTON, Jan, 1l.—~Johu A, Bingham, of Olifo, ons Minister to Japan, 15 tn Washington, A correspondent of the World called upos him at his hotel last syening, and the conversation turned upon the relations of the United States with Jujuan. 41 feel @ deep futereat,” anid hie, ¢ In lucreas- ing our trade with Japan, The Unlted States are ten days nearer Yokohawa than any other country. We manufacture everythlog that the Japauese want, and If Congreas gives us proper legialation there s no reason in the world why we should not command nive-tenths of the trade with China and Japan, Tho finest stk {n tho world Is grown in Japan, and thelr teas aro used in nearly overy hous hold fu America. Thero are very fow power- looms In Japan. The silk fa uesrly ull munufactured by hand, and the advent of Amor- fean machinery there would:completely revolus tionize the silic trade. Let Congruse ¥ive us tho stips, and the raw materlal can be brouzht from Jdapan and e mpnulactured in the United Stutes ut prices which would defy thecoaipetition of Europenn slli manufocturers, 1 omno longera uatlonal legislator and huve no right to speak a3 ong, but 1 bolieve {t to be the duty of every member of Cougress to do ali {n Wis power to promote CoMmMmerce. ommereo 18 the rizht hamd of clvilization. 1y legitimate wesns stiould by employed to bulld it up. Theroupe prara to be great opposition in this country to everything that looks like whiat fs calied ‘o snb- #ldy,” Look ut England, Bhe rules the v weres of the world, and she s constantly suli- dizing vvery Mue_ of vessels that will develup trade between England aud apy forelan coun- Id bo fdlu to suy that Coneress ia relal needs of Awerie, and [ suppose that in tigie the leglsiation will be Fiven us that we necd but the sooner that l; iolution cames the more rupld will be vur com- werelal growth und greatness. | van see thal America 48 becotning day by dava more Importsut factor fn the world’s progress. 1 can well remember the tlae when wu were looked upun as au fuferfor natiou of bue little account wniong the old countries of the world. But that feeling has already chang- ed, Americats tho pichest country ou the face of the zlobe to-day, If wo calentate the value of all our material products. Counsider our tilion Laleg ol cottun grown aupually, sur billions ot bushels of cereals, aur hay crops which are of wore value than the cotton, the knniense herds of cattly we possess, our fura producis,—but- ter, cigs, and checse,—and the incaleuluble wineral wealth of the land. Tueseure only o few of tha sources of uur national wealth, but with all these great possessluns we cau never Buggestions for the Loglsiature, To (he Editor of The Tribune. ILt1xo1s, Jan, 13.—~1 writo this with a view of Eettingeg you to assist me in calling the attention of the Leglslature to a uceded change in some paragraphs of our criminal laws. There aro scctions In tho statute-hooks of Tilinols that make It almost fmpoesible to convict an offender who scea the Penitentiary open who has means and friends to belp him.~ What can convict him? Why, even a fellow whohas uo inoney or friends, aud whose offense 1s ns clear ns day- leht, can delay his trlal one or two terms by swearing to false aflldavits, and, by the timo his trial comcs o, the_evidenco s wanting, or the witnesses have divd or cannow be found, or were not able to lay In the circuit where the trinl had been taken Dy change of venue, and all the former expeusés were for nothing, aud the vffender (probably layiog for six montbs in uil) lias to be released for want of evidence. The aflidavit busitesd in our Cireull Courts hoa Leeome so notorfous that [ think 1t 18 oo in- fumous onteage to allow the sano to remaln any longer on our atatute-books. IHave sou ever heard an aflidaylt read In court! Thess aflidavits are not made for delay, but xo0 “that *ltl“l:fi muy be done 1 Ohl how often bave { icard that infamous le when L Anew that tho samu purties namod 1o the allldavit, thelr nart. ners, were with them to jail, and uo contrary atlldavit was perimitted to offset theirs, While we may give ull reasonable und unressonable Iatituda to a person that is charged with crime, I think the community has a rizht (o pass such luws a8 urc Bot 4 nonacuse ov the statute-buok. AN LLLiNoIs BUERIFE, 6P oF THA, Al the leaves receivi) are treated allke. They arelieated fn copper pYns, aud from this practice arisos the old woiman ¥ story that the preen color is imparted by the cdifber, " ‘This green is given by n wixture ot l’mv?x an blue and China clay and somu yellow orgifle coloring matter, some- timea turmorie, or yelfow extruct “Tho nssorting, liko b hond. Each icaf, whig] y Into o L'umnucll unbrt {eu pellet of small slze in I willow bark, Gt TIEIR ORIGIN, B1C, Tho agrarian ¢rimes all possess common feats ures in their orlein and oxceution, For In. stance, the caso of Margaret Hayes, murdered near Emly, Tipperary, in August. In 130 Tnomas McGrath murried hee sistor Aun, and thercatter Jived with her father, in whose name the rent was puld, In 1850 Margaret came to Americu, where she was when her father died, s intention of leaving o wilt disinheritinzg the Mc(iraths and preferring Margaret beine asub- Joct of public gossiv, o died intestate, but Marearct went home from New York, took ont lutters of sdministration, snd evicted her Urother-n-law, After mass o a quict Suuday in August she was strollivg through tho Nelds, when shewas killed. Bhe was straugled, tier wveek was dislocated, she was stabbed twice i the throat snd twice 1o the licad, Lier noss was smaushed, and there wers three other contused wounds ou the skull. Onebrothes-n-law fouud the bodv, but sald nothing about the matter fur wo hours, *The sympathles of tho avowed fricnds of tho deceased,” wroto a local reportery “are entirely with tho perpetrators of the crime, and no person seems dlaposed 10 lend the slizhtest asslstunce Lo trac ous the murderers.” . % Whon the privoners the Mctiraths) were removed, & crowd collected n Emly sud stoned the police,” Threo years szo Martin O'Uonnan, & reapectable farmer of Ballyclare, Limerick, evicted two tenants, who find to mn'gr:uu: last summcr by was fouind on the rond ona morniug with his skull batteret in aud bis throat cut.” A furmer named Dolan of Coplattin, Wastmeath, purchascd a holding from which u tenant had been ejected. On 3 Baturday night in October o bund of unkuuvwn el busst into bis huuse and stabled him 10 death, Just o fortnlglit ugo Patrickc Madden, » balliff, who had bad au altercation with somo tenants about turfery, wus shot through the head while ridivg home near Tuam, Dec. 4 twenty unkuows men burst tuto the houss of Witllmm Reyuolds, s farmer at Bann, Cuvan, sud beas blin witbin an fnch of pis Jife with sticks oud atones, threateniug him as n:e?‘ dee arted with *“the death of Lurd Leltrim’ At urna, Uulway, Mr. A, Vesey's sgent, a M uclon, wos expected on 4 certain day to cole the reots, His room was propared unid hted at his house, but bs did not come, which was Just as well for hiw, because just ab tho moment afeer the areival of the truin that, ho would have been Hkely to enter the spait= nient u volley frow fuur guns was tired chrougly the window, THUS ENDED THI bXCOND LENION read to i, On a Friduy uight In the summer threo guns were fired fnut the windowa of the house of thy Rey, Mr. Rilbride, & privst on the Lslund of Arrun, popular and devoted clergy- iy, but who had given unpalatably advice (o uho purty to u luud dispute, Ouo day wo hear of u discuarged valet arrested at Porwrlingion for sending u threntening letter slgued * Ho.y of the HUEY to thut alnust shot-proof Magise trate, Mr. Rlehsrd Warbiirton, of Garrybi whio has been firod at soveral thaes, but escup i thus tar with the luis ‘of au cye, and the nett tho Magiatrutes of 8zlbbercon ure offering £10) for the writer of sanguluury letters full of threats sgalust Tho U'Dounuvan, who 18 coms pelled to publish “a (ull explanation " of the ouly two evictions which tovk place ou ks cstate, Ur suchiun dtewm 88 this 18 found ln o Dublin lettee: ** About thred vears ogo a tepant having been evicted from & mil und turm wear Phillipstown, in the Kiug's County, the place becama toriml- den o other Lenants, but ufter tholapse of soma wmonths o youug mon wamed Cabill was found courazeous enough to make the venture, He was not long iu occupation when ls was shot dead fo dayhgbit at the duor of bls wil, The wurdercr was uod the curing, is bicked 66 by tho long natls of the Chireso lnburers, 18 thou graded na extra gunpowder, Foe sayj %:lzed leaves which huve not rolled Into so sifabely bulls s the hlchest grade of |.v|un owider fiu plcked out for the see- ond and third grades,”’ [mperfal coutalna three grades aleo, varying from s lorge but perfectly- rounded wholo leaf 10 the broken and” half-roll- ed leavi ‘I'hen comes young nyson, which s not largre, but s abulit widway bewween rqwder aud imperlal,’ "hereare four grade beginning with exts No. 1. Hyson follows youne hysonn and tna® four grades; und lnst of all comes twonkay, which is thu remalnder of the “cliop™ aitérthe other Kinds huve been picked out, Fho tea' 18 then packed 1or ship- tmeut, ‘There are trom fourteen to sixtecu grades In every ** chiop,” ‘The first plcking ‘takes placo In tho early spring, when tho yonni leaves get the freshest , uid therefore the trat * chop ™ fa the best, {4 more particularly the cuse with bia: thun with gzreen teas, ‘Ieu that hus never been culored 18 very rars 'fu this country, except a varwnr kuown as Japan *thasket-flred ¥ ey 1u China the natives always use the uncolored natural feaf. 1t bas adurk olive tiug, and looks {ur less attractive to the eye than the colored en, The Janesvillo Stump-Speech, To the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicago, Jan. H.~TIn the Mack cuse at Janes- vilie you spesk of the *stump-speech” of the Judge fn soutoncing Mrs. Mack s **ala Han- you." 'Chis i3 'ard, very 'ard on Banyou, to be written down an ass with the Judze jo the samo sentence, particularly os the learned Arnory Justlce has in his *‘natural ife” repented of his follles and weaknesses, If not in sackeloth and ashies, ut Jeast 1 oew clothund old saek.'® Speaking of belng as on assreminds mie of & story, as poor Mr. Lincoln would say, One of those very wise nen In thelr own estimation, but fznorant and meddiesome, a member of Dr. Whately's church, approschied the Doctor one duy und sald, *Doctor, ?‘ml aon’t preach pre- destination enough; v {8 the round doctrive, und we must have more of it.” The Doctor looked at bim some time rather steraly, and sald: * You, I huve no dount, are predestined to bu an oss, aod you ars muklng your calling and election sure.!” I think this s the cass with the Judge, ‘Llivre 18 some consolation, however, fn all severo alllictiona; there are fome crumbs of comfort in oll sorruws; so thers Is patience, alsv Christinn resienation, felt by all fn the w- fMetion ot the Dugberry twaddie of the seatence of Mps. Mack; for— 1¢ the scntence of Jndge Conger Had been & Iitlo Jouger, er **natural Hio " would have ended Ere she to Waupun could bo sended, T think the poetry is as good us the **stump- speeeh,’ sud can” be reud often dutivg the *puturat 1o of any person, while the * stump- epeceh ' eun't, ‘Taere I8 ono man, however, that I know of who would like to bear that hoteh-potch of a senience, which contalne bad law, worse rellg- fon, donbtful morals, nonsence and stupldity nand thut 18 a deay m Inaword, It 18 a sel Lenee pussed upon o woman possivly Innocent, who was convicted upon the evidenceof ascoun- drel, wisn, by bis own admisslons, ought to e hiuwe; a seuteaco paased upon her withaut one ward of 4, vo or hupe, by o Judze, with all the euarity of u Pecknitf, and with all the vruelty otu Comanche lmbian, W, L. M, THE PRINCIPAL ADULTBRANTS that have been used tn tes have been leaves of tua willow and simtlar shrubs, spent tea-feaves, lie-ten (s truly appropriate nume froin the uese), mineral niulter, sturcl, and coloring mat- ter, Lie-tea 18 composed of ten-dust, foreign leaves, quartz, and magnetic oxide of fron wude up with starch, It was not an une common importation during the mes when tea sold at very high prices. but as it 1a now selling luwer tuan ever before, theee fs nothing to be made by bringing such stutl here, 10 thero was uny proilt In making adulterated tea, there ds Nitle doutt that the sduiteration could be done 1 New York qute as successiul- ly us 1 Chiug, but the rncu of the real article 13 80 low thut adulteration would be a jusing specntation. Fheru are, however, establishinents which do & fulr busiucss lu recoluring okl tea, When tea has been opened for pome thing it luses its strength, and niso its bright, h . The rength cannot, of course, be restored, but it may bu made 1o assume that virtue, thouzn it bag It nut. A mixture of efght quarts of terra alba and one quart o Dutch plnk, with ono teas spuuntul of Prussiay blue, 18 used to every 200 yuarts of tea. "Uhie tea 18 reheated, ond this mixture 1 sprivkled ou it until the 'lcuvus ure couted with i AN IMPALUAHLE FOWDER, ;I‘Iwy then bave ull the appearance of new green ea. Heslde the coloring mixture for green tea, heretofure mentlounl, & putber of other sub- sinnces have been uaed: rose piuk, Duteh pik which 18 really yellow), catechu, cbromate of hate uf {rou, Vencetion red, carbouate chromate of potush, Indigo, entbon- ate of ime, und curbouate of moguests, Beent- cd teas, bluck gunpowaer, 20d orange pekoe ure colored with grapnite aud plumtage, or black City Reelp Ta the Jditor wf The Tribune. Cuscaao, Jan. H,—Belore the cty reached fts constitutional borrowing limlt, it went ouside for money, and shways willingly patd futerest on wuney losned it, Now, why not wiltingly allow aud pay interest on home credit—serip louns 1 As it would Le fmpolite and even unjust to ask money-leuders to loan money without Interest, it ia cqually ns finpolite und unjust ta force, without consent,, the city employes, such wd thoe police, Breinen, schoul-tenchers, aud uthers, to lend thelreredit to the city without interest, us ls done In compell- iz theém o take thelr pay in non-tnterest-bear- g senng und that, too, ulter they had con- sented 10 (by severe cutting-lown of their sala- pot lone ago un a cask basls, This yolicy ot non-intervst-bearing serip is anuther ¢ i thelr saluries by the discount they anust make in order (o get the cash, “The unimated disenssion of the Hoard of Education ut ftas regular meeting last week shows that the teachers 2an 1l atford the dizeount on the serip, as 18, with the 25 per ceut cut-down of 8 year = ‘Yo sbow the publlc where the profits on tea RO, & couiparisun I3 wiven of th prices of differ- ent grades of tea ut wholeaale und retail prices of the the sames Whotesale, Laetail, tubdc 81,50 tw §1,76 wide KU (v 1.00 Guppowder, ex Gunpowder, ex, Guubowder, 3. at everytulug, Lo treat tho wost importaot mage ters tnan oil-hund manner, sud to sueer ut wit- nesscd, than to consider a subject seriously and with becowmiug dignity. There wus much to weep over, und_Mttlo to lauzh at, tn the whole of Artetnovaky’s trial, whlch brought out in strong reliet a very sad picturo of the rottons Younyg Hysou, ex. Young Mysoniex, No. ONE TRICK OF THE THADE nesa aud hohlowness of modern soclety, whers | found, A louger luteryal then occurred, durinis fuce of the oruamentul water ju Regent's Park | ago, mukes over 23 (1) tu-r ceut Juss thou they | bope to become tue leader of uativos until we | 18 now baviug a great suceess o Philadelpbis, | particulurly s sevenof tho jury wero mecciants | tinsel aod gveat names ure employed for tho | which the pluce rematucd absolutely waste, but on Sunday, wuld there 1 skatiug by torchlight | stoald have. Is this Xu- i have comineree, An ouloug tea is mlxed with o sl proportion | sud peasauts, Ju spite, however, of ber wit sud golug ou tbere every vight sod in thy buwerous purpose of convealing tho worst of criwes. The (v vs, with its usual love of philesophic geueratization, asserts that eriwluals like Arte- tuuvsky sud Mother Metrophauia are the brod. ucts of o soci:ty that dous vt give full seops to thy encrgies snd taleuts of the tewaly sex. 10 tho clty has power to issuc * serip,” which i3 only unother uame 10F Proussory uotes, it certaluly bus thy power to make thew with whatever futerest it can pay, sud s just to the credit lenders, It the werip drew juterest of 7 or 8 per cent, there would be little ur no discount from tueir face value, as tho fntereat wouid of ftaclt be vutlivlent to sutisty all reasonable money-lend- ers who are willlng tu gccommodute the oiy's cniployes with cash for scrip, sud thus belp the ity slong. Tuers 18 anutlier jdea besides the justice of this fnterest to serip, aud that s, the foterest 13 kept ut nomy, which 18 no small ftem to the city’s prospenty; tor every doliur she can keep at homic us uterest to et ‘people 18 certainly u *+ { Qv nut apprehend the trouble which some of our people think ikely toresult from ¢ o bmmlgration, Seven years azo L iraveled o thu greater part of the Statcof Culitornia, 1 saw o Chivswen at work then, und | know wetning of tbe cexteot of their lonnigration since that thme, The Chinawan is 4 veculise beduyg. He beileves the sotl ol his native laud to be sacred,—blessed of Heaven. He could not die contentedly, and he belleves that bis soul wuukd not rest peacefully, unless bis body after death was buried tn the Flowery Kuigdot. Nt 4 Lhinanan couies to Amerfea without the in. tentlon of tually recuruing to his native laud, or providing 1 the event of his death that s body shall b carried back 10 Chiua to be buried, ‘This love he feels for bis pative land aud the de- of green Lew, su that (e taste of the compound 18 dallerent trom either ol 1ts constituents. ‘this {a then packed {o ope-puund packages with wrappers upparently of Chinese origin, und 1t fasold us the pendine uncolored natural leaf, auch as the Culuesc themselves use, A circular v given with each puckage ectting forth the angers of uslog ortitliliv-colored tea, sud thousands of puunds are thus sold to 8 coulld- g pullic. The success of this trlck might co- 1age one Lo hove that geuulne utcolored tea would sell weld {0 upy vne would wupurt it Uufortusately every ¢ifore to selt this 1es has bevn u tublure. ‘dhe patural fval tea bua a4 & of bilious yellow collor, yetuiuding oue uf dricd willow feaves, and no oue will buy it. The pub- Mg like toe uice green color, nud alittle Prusstun ather public recrestlon-grounds of e citve Chrlstimas-weather ot the penuine sort will maten the Corstinas-cheer Iy Eugland this year the coses of the nch wod thiivibge, Alast they ure fewer than usuul, The diatress n the couutry, by all scvounts, 18 TEIILLE, and one trembles b the thought of what this **acasunable auow sy mean to milious, 1 pasecd through that biduous thoroughlure, the Boro', last eveniuw, The slushy, dinty, togsy stecets, with the ragged uud wildsl loafers ut the stiectvorners, made up oW picture of discuitorl and misery so sordid and ubject that not all she garsh oriflianey of the shops, uot all the burry sng bustle of the ateuant was eventually found, pumed llulclj Langton, He was duly served with potlce u death, but was 1nore fortuuate than bis predes cessor, Ao iron lut, which s kept fur sucly uses, was erccted on the lsnd, closs Lo the mil Dy tho constabulary authorities, and two armed Constables wers put in 1t 1o waten over Lung? ton's life. This was uearly two years ago, Lany: ton had gt lungth left the locality, aud the mins fature furt has been temoved and the Cousta= blea have beew recalled to ordlnary daty, 1bke but, bowever, Las been seut to snother pare of :hc l'i",‘g“"’- where ft is atated thero fs occasion or It After this one is bardly surprised to read that wheu o large landbolder went hame to Ireland he was “ walted un bext muruiog by the polne taleut, sud of the defeuse veng couducted by aue of the sbleat adyocates In_Moscow, and the poor Abbes wus found ewity aud sent to Bieria. 1t was bisly, tuerelore, that a Russian Jury would stand w0 nubsvuss regurdiog Turzery, even whencommitted by u holy wothor tor thunitabte purpuses—huwever lement'y they mihit louk upon noiiclde whew bate or jealousy ure the prompiers, It I8 strangze that the per- svns | have aliuded 1o, who were tried for wurder, diove B o court i o sinsle divaiky— o Jlughig, rattling vebicde oo C springs, ond found in wo town i Russia except 8ty Poters- burg—uud retirned bome, when acquitied, fo the same awkward, but inexpeusive, Vauee whereas the two lady fonzers uud Ovsyunnikopr 'S Mr, John Wren, of Cleveland, O, ust ro- coveral Trom & H0-uille draute 1y Gat vy Loudon, Lug., sutme weeks ozo to vislt o son, UL Very dravkat @ wing parsy, uud vanished. Waoen next heard of it wusat the depot fu Cleve- laud, where bo was fouud, underthe futluence uf hquory oud arued with two LI botties of whis- Ky, ‘fhuy Look i to the bhospiial, where, after somo days? deliriuum, be recovered his senecs, —a wmurchant worth £1,000,000, sud”tred 1of | sbused his Evzlish iriends for deserting bim {n | oflicers of tho district, who told blm that thres "buscs with their hvioz frelghis i boliday- | wise policy, and to be prefetred ¥ thue 10 | teruuation dead or alive sowe day o return to | blue bas no terrors for the invelerale tea- | arson—all of whow were condemued to Juurney | o straude place, aud asked lor paper (o write | men bad been tuld ou'by the seeret sociJuL.n :a miukera ol wicw of business vou home 10 | that policy that pays the nterest futo the | 1a zacred soil do, lu wy opiolon, preciude etlect- | drinker, to Siberia al bls Mojesty's cxpeuse, bad thelr hapyy resides, pot wli the Christmas-cheer in- dicated by the noving crowds on the alusby Buot-vaveuicut, could aoften or exeuse it. Bus, b Wy tuuce good o bad, theas will all bome to Clevelund for woney with which to re- turn to Anvrlva. ")lr Godl have I erussed toe Atlautd: Oceun druuk ™ he exclaimed, when ut Jast wwes couvinced bun that he wus in Ohio, not {u England, cotlers of those who live vutside of the city aud buve no futeiest fo ber exeept 1w druwing wouey vut and away trom her. Aud uow, wa the discoust ou non-interests murder biw, owing to bis havinz taken an uctive part fu endeavoring to suppress crhins.” ‘Theies upou the landiord uppeals l tu the uvernueas for protection, uud the reply cume from an official suurca that ha ¢ bad better Lye out of Irclaow™ ually the beltet cutertalued Dy s0ue that w m- jonty of thetwo hundred mitliohs of Mungollabs will, uuless prevented by legislation, uyerrun s United Staten? | REFOUT OF DU. MOTT. Following 18 tue report of tie chetalst who wade the aualysls: 40 e Bditors of the Evening Post—In accore splendid carriages aud bordes wulting for them wutside the court, so sure did they seew of the verdict belug io thelr tavor. . The trisdiwbich exclted s0 much attentlon in