Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1879, Page 9

o %9 iy 1} « GIIOU An Effective Method for Their An- nihilation. gested by n Correspondent at Rochelle, 1, e, ving Inspected the Contents Ha of an Old Cemetery, sugl e Becomes «Enlightoned” on the Subject of Burial. Jud, to Prove Tlis Sineesily, flerewith Dequeaths Hlis Body 1o tho Chicago Hed- feal College, o the Editor of The Tribune. RocnrtLe, 1L, Jan. 22 15i0.—The of lata often-repeated depredations upon Lhe bodles of our beloved dead may well canse serlous contem- plation fn thinking minds, nud an cxertfon on fhelr part to decide by what meuns this ac- Enowledzed evil may hiegt be remedied. The question Ia a gcrions one, as in the inler- est of huinanity medical men scem to be unable foget a proper knowiedzo of the pathology of the hody and {ta anatomical mysterles without the practical demunstrative lectures at the dls- serting-table. Yet ore fact Ispre-cininently self-cvident, that thie owourship of the dead should be held sacred, and that any Interfurence with this richt ls crfiminal. Upon the principle that *the end justifies the meaons,” the Jeaders of ourmedical achools scem {o envouraze the necded supplles of “subjects Ly falr means or foul. If the limited supply of {lie unclatmed bodies of criminals and paupers, to which they aro by law entitled, fs extbinusted, ambitlous students, desirous of n thorough Ynowledgo of their profession, to enablo them o come to the rescue of sulfering humanity un- Cerstandingly In the holy capacity of physiclan or susgeon, WL B true Lo thelr noble ealling, Jeave no stone unturnel to obtaln “more Tizht,” until in full possession of all the myste- ries of this * holicat of holies,” the funcrmost seerets of the human body, Phveieinns arc students. Students are think- ers, and thinkers are generally béyond the prejudives of ordinary nortals; therefore wo well eall upon them first to futroduce, if possible, new methods of obtalning * subjects™ fufliclent for thetr stndies, without violating the most sacred rights of othera, ; The rest®ht exil 0 the world has slways Veon, suong the mosscs, an absence of fndi- shdual awd idegendent active thought. They lave Leen reared {n the rut ot thelr forefathers, and there they surge und roll slong, following the vocntlons of thetr every-day llle as uncon- cerned nbout all clse but mones and the ways aml means of supplving the bodiy wants as so many chilldren, In matters pertainine to relig- fun awd hizher thoughts upon soctal toples they Tase voluntarlly allowed themselves to be pro- pelled alung in these ruts until the latter have buen et so deep that it ts now rarely one has Iwifvilual foree enough to draz himself vut upon the glorlous pathof intellectual manhood. Peuple don’t thiuk this I the cause of all superstition and fgnorancs fu tho world, By natuee endowed® with an cqual or superior brain as thelr forefathicrs, they readily aceept as truth, what the latter, in the dark ages of the past when little remoto from the ape, ongi- wated in thelr brutal braln. Many things are bellesed which they admit are beyond human underetatcting; yet, although consclous of soms {ntellectuat powers and capacity of compre~ heuslun 0s those who origlnated these boliefs, hey are contented to tramnplo the highest at- 1ributes of thelr Lelng under their feet, and be- Jieve nud ncceut thut as truth which thelr Parents and thelr great-great-ad-nfinitum- graid parcnts, equally without underatunding, fnvented for them, v o friendly diseussfon with a * llberal » Christtan not " lome ago, who dlscurded, o la Beehier, Swing, il Thomas, o great many ol the hiteral savings of the tble, und therehy ind'rectly denyiig its authority, 1 asked him to Cetine s [deus of God winl “the possibility of Jits exintenee tn a untverso Influite amd eterval, ring to lutest sclentilic explorations, cl-existent, supreme, und absolnte, exeluding il elve uutside ot or greater than lisclt, fe falds The unseen wnd incomprehensivla is crenter than that which we see aml conspre- hetd, nid (s unseen something 1s Gul. A penonal God, yet no body; o personality, buc ;m purson wisdom and fatelligence, but o % the ungwer of an Intellicent man, who In B bland fth adiits ho cannot wes of ¢ompre- heud God, uml s you willing to accept traditions thut are the vazue fdeas of soins uhe elee, who was cqually biiod and could not seo Giodd any more thun Jumsclt, ls {llustrative of e ereat evil of the present duy, 1t God §s not cotngreiensible now to ue, Hewasneyercompro- Tensible to any one, wid terefore ull these pro- gresive Chrlstlaua who discard the literal Tibln Lindwe unconeclous athelsts,—out of une rut, lv:u huven’t force euougl to get out of tho oliar, ‘This sume soirit of taking for granted without thought us truths the silly nventions of cun- e men in regard to rellzion 8 vrevalent in most afl other matters, il thus we follow fu e foutsteis of our slly predecessors, and adupt tdso tielr habies aind custats, ‘The preeent monle of dispasing of the dead | oue of the most strikine Ulusirations of tact, How beautitul, how tender, how sacred beetn to 1ts the Juncral rizhits when we conllde o the curth our bejoved dead, - How conscluus i our iost s; dutywhen tathe Uit of vur thnanclad ubility we bave intrusted fun caaker of splendor sod beauty, robed in Farments of punity wind toveliness, the preclous I (o which weare now obliged to ssy the last turewell, Wo et o.4i the treasure fn the ellent tomn of Roschallor Mount lcasunt whero artninzien with nature to ereato a Jandseapo both Loly and beautiful, Hase wo pondered within our owen minds It wo iase dutie our whole duty uid acted wisely, ur Aidd we nct unconsciously b the rut of the tid- €olls customs o1 the paat Homeward wo ‘wend our gieps and leave the loved 101 alone tits steen of eternfty, In Wemory we reeall the lovely viston often as ¥en [n life, but dare we follow tho dear one in llm_mzym, e into that dark cuvern of horrord w.\ ! The thoughs slons wakes us shudider, : IIJ('\ 46 to llnlnk] satiafylng the unconeclous fecting of gutly by leading our thoughts Inother direct oy lut, leaving the field Iu{{; atn (--wl llm~| 3 cure gullly dufly of practicing the most :lmc!uu: uued hideous Iml:lll known kl Fhiet bisto- h)!ul the world, ris the climax of flendish sl ‘l.lllu'.ul fnventlons, No nution, bowever low .n {,lw slice of development, pructice auything ‘." arburous or approachiue 1t in horelble de- - Fhie dispusing’ of the dead by crewation, ul-ugr. blrds, ur beasts of prey, or oy other “rlm*. s anggebic und humany In comparison to Lo 3 bractico of burial of the moat civiitzed race con this glube, 5 1t hus feen wy fortuno to know whereof [ dn‘a?fi Opposite” my window Is an old abun- ‘xvm L{;rlu-umu-m. Yoeurs ago the bt h::f moved whera they would give less offense lmnm {bustriis o1 the) hvlug, It wus tavor 5 .l‘d e by the mun in charge to call me “n’u the cotling wero ralsed. ‘Vliey were inall u'f'"' of decuy, — Bomu erumbled” “to dust,” :tlhcr With thelr fnmates, while belog broughit ‘0 th. My trlend thue resurrectioniat, belng lfik)rl‘ Intelligent und free trom fear, und auxious tolara os Well o3 wywell, would duen u fow of h-e collius to discover their voudition, wnd to for the fute i store for bimscll wnd mortals LR, neral. ‘Theso investizations afforded us d»‘fi" witereat, Alust If the friends of theso u'u'l lw‘um have witocssed the coudition of h:\‘}v oved oues, 1t ulight couse them to think, i Lo thing, und to dra thewaelves oat of s thelruncestors bave Ylan:tl them . ook the cofln of o gowd old geutleman of r) Beyualntunce, burled somy Yo ik all stream of staznunt water bad fouud Mm,\ Hto tie bead of tuy colliu, cauied oy e uf eglect ol the villuze grogads, 1t bad, h;‘ tave ol w thicis black streai, penctruted st "my I the Feglon of oue of the eyes, tooding ‘mon'm.- balf-way with the shmy wstter, aud poltor u UL Lule futo the fucs snd skull, w2 it fu ftsauit of Llack amd the silver ";'t'u):‘t“lu\‘lcll wreserved, bldeous uud terriblo to of contemplation, lot us n I L“i?w"hm of the remalus, bowever, of o “mxl‘, duutauce [ aw was i borrible tuan i buian eyes ever bebeld before, In Useuig it poition of = 10 e coflln over Lo fa hk‘gs:\i\uyd ber bead und neck catlrely 1 n;fm..l,',’, vis wild wass of the re sough u ack word, then deadd, whbich, lko throwel & ved, m:ulu talls, vivid 10 1o minds of your readers the truth ot my assertions abuve, phyelelana espeeialiy, who, I know, ns n class avo unprejudice a _reform fo much different disporing of anr dead, and wh 1 dimly the bones of the faco nd veless sockets of the ones beautiful faco aid hemd,—the worms having feasterd nupon that boily, and then lingering apparently ! nutil the want of further food caused theie deatl, My friend told mo of eases of ore vent Interment which were nsore repugnant stitl, Bue 1 will not dwell upon theee horrtbie dde- which 1 was forced to wentton to mnke The objcet now of this fetter is to inquire of and” ndyanced n thoucht, why they os a class do not agltate more thuronghly needed concerning o eattictle mode of { they do not by practico Intredues among the manses the most ratlonal, sensihle, purest. nnd especlally 1o thelr profession the most desirable method ot disposinz of the body after deall, namely, cause thelr omn bodies when dead 1o bo de- livered to the medical world for t dvance~ ment of thelr noble selence nnd in futerest | of Immnml.e'. 1o be used hr thelr surviving colleages al ihe dirccting-tablel T hove this frienaly sugzestion wili not startle any of that noble professfon for which all my Iife I have had aliinconsclous feeling of venera- tlon, md the persuit of which I eonsider the highest mission of man. 1om Inearncat, What objections can there he to renalble. men aid women, eapeelally ag an alternative for the present disgusting mode of hurial, to *will?? their bodles to the medical 51 Burely not any, nud all reason, nnd ;fllracnsu of propticty nnd estheties, ure in its favor, Funernl scrvices, ceremonies, cote., to those whao desire themn, need then not be dispensed with, nor any other of the tokens of respect wo now offer to our last dear ones, Even amonu- ment, in my opinion, is more desirable, nud a cemetery whereln to place them as now, for the purpose of devoting o few hours to the mem- urles of the dead when not consclous of the ghastly hones and putrld strata underlying these Deds of roses and graceful moumds of vel veb green, All which Is " heautiful, all which s ! Tovely, all our atfe.tionate devotion for our be- loved dead, could remains but let us nriee from | n slavish bratality und purity the atnosphicre of | our exlstence and eradicate the alseusting veatizea of & most fiendish barbarism from our, In'nllmr respeets the highest and purcst, social splicre. "Turtend of depositing the body In the chill grave Lo by ahut out Trom view nid annthilated forever, the foud of wortng, let the procession of {riends bole at the sanctum of colleges, thiere to bie given in charge of our Professors, whose honor and wisdum will receive them fn red trust. s it any more obnozlous to thinking minds to Intrust themselves ufter death o the same physician to whomn they would cheerfully ntrust thelr body durioe lifet When properly seecived, rulesand reznlations could be entoreud by which the hody might te- main under gunrd” for sucln time as might ho thought expedient, ‘The possible vases of bur- fal where Iifc 18 not yet extinet, nid which hap- pens now _quite frequently, smd haunt suillions during a life time, would then be impossible, and, If a truce of Hfe remained, the test of the scalpel would resuscitate our ioved ones and res turn them to our bosoms, Students, * zhouls,’ now often ceaving for knowledge, would then not be foreed by stealth at nignt to risk their Ite nnd Hberty, but, cucournsed by all thw world, would soon bu at the Inncrmost shrine of the temple of wisdont, and the dead would fmpart. that knowledgo most needed by man: Knowle edge of vurdclves, 1 huvy said thnt Iwas fn carnest. I now re- pent it, and, {0 proof, upon iy honar, [ now mnke the following statement: I, for on, il now and herewith (my wile consent!s and, beloe a woman_ *without jrejud I have no reason to doubt {t), tny bal; death to the *Chicago Medical Coll thelr use as thoy may conslder In the fnterest of their noble profession, and do so (o the con- sciousness that jn this humble way Lmay be ahble to add iy wite tovaras clevating my fel- low-men out of the rut of siavish subjection to brutal and superstitiuns traditions to o more noble conacivusness of individual power aud manhoud, Wuen [am dead, and my bones, instead of having gone “back to dust,” snall have been nleely seraped, and bleached, aml wired, and e cxhibited g( it s then the desiro ot the $ powers that be ") I u medleal muscum, may his letter from The Trisose be attached to 1t in a frame as a movument to the flest aziator of u reform 50 much nesded, so elevating, aud 80 sublimie, Ot710 WETESTEIN, ——— NEBRASKA. Important Mousures to Come Iicfore tho Legistature, Sveelal Correspondence of The Tripune, LiINCOLN, Neb., Jau, 20.—~The Nebruska f.eg- fsluturo hius now been in session two weeks, nnd Lua demonstrated the fact that It 18 composed of men who have come to the Capital to. work, 'There being no United States Scintor to elect, the members have not been distracted from the actunl busluess of the session, 'The most important duty of the Legislature 18 pussing upoun the report of the revision of the stututes. Two years ago three of tho best law- yers of the State were appoluted a8 - Commls- sion to revise the statutes of the State. They have dune their worl as carefully as it could be doue in so short o time, ‘They huve made a good many changes of the presont Jows; bave cuetalled the number of oflieers in towns und citfes; have made better provision for the col- lecetiun of taxes; bave cut down the salaries of District Clerks to reasonablo figures, ‘They bave recommended that all executions of crimiuals shuil be within Loe walls of (he State Prison, by the Slierifl of the couuty In which the convies thon #s Jiud,. An uble dofnt Commifttee of buth Mouses t8 now reviewing the report of the Com- mittee ou Bevinkong it some of the chanters, cepayted 1 the furm of bills, bave reached the thiled rewdling, Yrobably the next question fu Imvortance be- fore the Legistuture §s o bl probibithg the Heonse or_ saly of walt, vinous, or spirituous liquors, This will by futrodgeed fu the House to-day by the Hou, W, T, Scott, of York County, o young gentleman of constderable Jueal prom- fnenee, 1t will bu eliambloned I the Benago by the flon, Chureh Jowe, Muster of the Btate Grange, nud oue of the shrewdest pollitictans thu Btate, It looks now s thouwn the bill would pass, though at the commencement of the sesaton it nupeared as 40 there wers no hopo forit. 1f{t is deleated, it will bo by tacking suine frrelevant matter on 1o 1L fur thé express vurposo of defeutlny {t. Nobody has yet beeu announced to appearin_open opposition to it, thuugh the b uadoubtedly has opponents, Joln B, Frenct, the temperance-apostle, is bero, % well us Mrs, Amands Way, of Kunsus, the woll-kuown lubbylst, They Wit e nasiated by Gen. A, H. Bowen, De, Fisherof Omalia, aud orhier sterlnz workers., 'Uhe sutitomperancs people in the Htatu will spend 2 good deal of motes, und it 48 poastble the bill may be caslly defented when the batteries aro unmmasked, AL present, 1t saveess luuks to be wisured. The vall witl open 1hiw atteruoon, Anotber important scheme on foot tsa bill for the er ew Capltol butlling in this elty, ‘Phe bill was Introduced, rather pre- muturcly, last but hus not boen pushed forwanl, 1L provides tor the ereetion of u batld- g to cost ¥HL00,000,—one wine of which, to cost 100,00 1s 1 be'‘erceted mnediately,” A speclal tox ot one will 18 to bo levled for the urposs of puyling for the ercetion ot the bulld. ng. ‘Phere 18 1o doabt that w new Cupltol is needed, ‘The present bullding entire costless thun $100,00, aLu thne whien materiats und labor were higher, wid when steallngs wero casily taede, The present building 1s un eyesure, o dlszrace to the State. 'Thero 8 but Gue real, hontst uplston 11 regard to the bliby i that i that ft should puss, Yet thero are the usual irllnuniu of locatton, nmd votes will Lo lust Jrough thint, It bs belleved, huwover, that e bl wiil puss. 'fho need of & Btute Reform Behool haa been felt. “There are, accordingly, halt-a<lozen bills under conslderation, und 1 course ol vreparas tion, to providu for this ueed, “Phe mose popu- Tar bald provides for the location of this institu- tion utor near Owaha, It §3 oxvected that Oumuba wilt turnish a largo sharo of the inmates of the lnstitutiun, sud tiat her wembers will uot vote foru bill that locates tho fustitution fur away frou thut city, Bill ure also pru&uud for the establishment of asecond Btute Normal School, sl for the enlarzemient of the State Peuitentlary, The former wili bardly pass. “The latter s hecome u neceasity, Chere uro now 101 prisuicrs cons flued lo the Penltentiary,—abuut 150 uelne State convicts, und the remainder prisubiers sent and more trom Wyowlng, or Uvited Btates prison- erd, Five—including that extruordivary villaty, Richards, und Olive and threo of Lis fellow wan-burners—are bere for sale-keep- fng; the former awuiting cxceution, and the oticrs awalttog telal. ‘The cells in the Penlten- tary eachh cenisin two tien, and thirty vr forlv slecp vutstde of cells, “Therefore, more room is needed, “Phe greas objection [s to the espend ture of Nevraska mouey for the purione of taking Fouting . Unlteg Brates prisouci ¢ will be the tzhit, “Che Labor of the convicts 18 vow leasud tu u coutractor, who runs the whole prison, 18ys the eularics of offfcers and all the runnlug expenses of the orison, und bol s o contreet for tive years, It fa clued that Le has bo nebt to huaport torelen [ 14, aid eXiaee the St to bulld addd Honal rovin for thelr accoutmodation. there L Hkety to be a Litter thett on tas que:ton, Ouer futervating Lills wry du preparatlon, tu- = THE CIICAGO TRIDUNE: FRIDAY. JANUARY (879~TWELVE PAGES ng cmes for tnymicration, for fish- eulture, for atding fn the gunishment of erime In unorganized rounties, ete. NEURASKA. —— . MONROE, MICIL The Tome of t Gailant but 1il-fated Cuater, the Halling Plncn of the Mucky Kho-Wne-Cne-3elies, and the Scene of tho Horrihle Itiver Ralsln Massacre of 412 =0One of tha Ruarvivors of That Terrible Affalr Relutes His Experlence sl That of 1iompanions.dn-Arms. Epretal Correspondence of The Tribune. Mosnog, Mich,, Jan 2L—At two different periods within the past two years the pame of this beautitul Mitle city on the west slore of Lake Erio has perhaps been oftener upou Mie lipe of the people of this country than thnt of nlinost any other within Its wide domain,—in July, 1870, when the overwhelming and erush- 1ug shock came of the massacre of our galiant Gen. Custer, when the name of Monroe as the home of the valiant soldier was nssoclated with that tragic minl mournfl event; nod agafn in July, 1878, when vur * phenomenal ™ but. repre- sentative crew of amateur oarsmen,the plucky, wiry, and enthusinstie 8ho-Wae-Cne-Mettes, , crosseil the big herring pond 10 measure oars with thelr aguatic brethiren on the Thaimes. ‘Ihie name of Monroe wi on @ mliifon tongues Which pernapshave not since spoken ft. Yet the place hss an bistorie fnterest and importance which wiil not quiteallow It to be dropped from ihe page of history, aven i{ it should be for- gutteu ns the former home ol Custer, Tteintl- mate connection with the early settlement of the Northwest, und eapecially ita fdentification with the exelting scenes and events of the strag. gleof 151213, must olways invest it with a deep interest. Theta are still livlag in nud near the city a half<dozen survivors of that terrible, tragle, and brutnl massacre at the River Ralsiny—men of that hardy French race, whose iron constitutions aud wouderful vitality remain unshaken by the storms aml blasts of g cen- tury. Ihave just seen two of these rennauts ol thie ancien regime, Nodeau and—, whilen Lhird, Guyor, now upwurds of 100 years of age, ltvea a few sntles from here, hale, hearty, active, and In nearly the full possession of all his face ultics, Hisis prolably the mostactive umd inteli- goent nan of hisagenow Hvine, The description by thase old French settlers of the tragie scenes of which they were ey e-wituesses is thrilling an fn- teresting to o degree. As this is the sixty sixth anuiversary of the hattle of the River Ralsin, the slte of which [s now covered by the City of Monroe, perhaps some of the lucidents thereot 1y ot prove uninteresting, especially as they eonie from the Jips of these men who were wit- nesxes or partlcipunts. ‘The settlements on the River Rafain during the war of 1312 were of course greatly exaosed to the marauders of hoth thie Dritish wnd theiw suvago nllles. In January thelr sftuation he- came go eritical that culls ipon our troops were wade for usslstance wid protection. In Ken- tueky the ery met with a qoick wd prompt re- spouse, a8 body of volunteers, under Gen, Winehiester, Teft thelr homes in_August, 181, nily Blter o scries of weary marches throngh o wild, unbroken, nnd unknown country, sutfers tug preat hardships from insuflicient” clothing and rations, they arrived on the 20th of Junuary, at the sctilement tlien ealled Frenchitown, where they tuund o detachment of Beltlah aud Iudians,—prohably 400of the latier. Mr. Nadean deacribes this engagement ns * sharp and short, the result heing the rnullnj]r of the enemy. The Kentucklans now marched fnto the villagze, and, crusainge the river on the fee, went into camnp In o sumewbat exposed posltion. On the morning ol an. 2t daybreal, the Americun — camp was nttacke by British nad Indluns. ‘Fhe number of the ns- sailing party was eatlmnted by our ofllcers to be LE00 1o 2,KK. The Amerjean force was less than 1,000, The attack, Mr. Nadeau says, wos opened with o heavy dre of musketry and artil- leevs sopudidenly” and unexpectealy was the attick made that there was no time for furming our troups advantageously or obtuining a favor- able pusition. 'Lhie ussault was met and sustained with ereat finnness and extreme bravery for u Jun tiwe, when the commander, thinking to effeet o move- ment to the right nnd rear, (0 oceupy ground Jess oxposed, and where the chances mizh he more cqualy gave the necessary order to accoms plish this, ‘The enemy detected the contem- plated cliunge, i, |5u|cx; a8 lightning, before the Amerlenn rroops had barely commenced to change thielr position, the whole force ot sav- awes und & portion of the Brlitsh repulurs wero thrown forward to break our lines nud eheck the movement. Qutnumbering our brave fellows two to ong, they suceecded n ereating disorder, il prevented this part of our furce from again farming in line of battle, Our men, pushed by n superior foree, touuht lie tizers, retreatinie step by step. wiml disputing fuct Ly tneh the graund they wers foreo to yleld to thielr meref- less Toes, ‘The lineof retreat §s now pointed out by my nformant, und Hes alon the present line of thy Detrolt, Monroe & Toledu Brauch of the Luke Bhore & Michigun Southern Italiroad, Reacn- e a polut a quarter of awllo from the river they mado n Flmul, Lut were soon surrounded by ihe Indlan force, und compelled to surrend A Major, Captan, nid ahout twenty-five toen only escaped, While attempting 1o furm this divislon suto lne, Gen, Winchester and Col, Lewts were talien pfsoners. It becanw evident to Gen. Winchester and bis oflicers thut a con- tinance of the unequal contest was an unjusti- tlable pucrillce of his brave inen, whoso ranks were continnatly prowing thinner. It was re- sulved to surrender the fow that remnlued ns prisoners of wur, on condition that their lives were spared, and thelr private frogp protects ed, 'The trath was thal nositernative rematned but surgender or eeneral massucre, ind the lag- ter camo very bear belng the cose os it wus. Che aunnuuition was m-arlf’ exhnusted, the cu- emy wers conzentrutle thelr forces to hurn the town, umd it was declired that no attempts would vu mode by the Brtish oflicers Lo restraln e ferocity of the suvases, who surrounded the vloce {u great numbers. Under these clreum- stauces Winchester surrendered, fae minde Ly the Britlsh communder, Gen, tur, was violated, ‘The Iidians eentiled thelr bratal s bluwly propensities without interer- coee or restraint, Some of theso prisoners, alter the surrender, wge tomahawked; some wero shoty others torfured or burned alive by the savages, ‘Fhe houses of the settlers wero pil- Jugged nnd destroyed, aud the prieoners whowere not killed were treated n the most lnbuman by the Indians 0 the presenco ot Hrite WWwithout nnz cifurt heing maue to pre- vunt or restrafn thelr barvariti 1u violation of oft-repeated sssurances by Col, Proctor tmt the prisoverd, particularly the wounded, shonkd be provided for as their neces. sltles required, and be conveyed - sleiehs from the Rlver Raisin to Malden, they were pluced fn charge of the rathless and now maddenced say- uwed, ‘Uhey wers amadu to travel tirouch tha dvep snow ui foot, the cold uelig lutense (uearly us eold, my iutorinant states, us the weather of the first duys of thiy vear); and thoso who, from the severity ol thelr wounds, were nnsble to keep pace Wwith thelr swht-foutet tormentors wera tomuhawked, sealped, and felt by the road- gide, Among the womded thus inhumsuly butchered was Cupt, Nathaniel lart, of Ken- tuexy, a relative of Henry Clay, On the day suceeeding the tuttle, the Indlans continued (hele atrocitics, In oue instance a house containlug about (Ifty prisoners was sct on e (n seversl places. Suine of the unlurty- uate nien, Jnattempting to escapo by the doars { windows, were driven back, und werw o sumed with the building. 'ty Iy.borrible aud blood-curdling nesscd by these Fronchmen. ‘e settlements along the river wero broken up, amd &1 the Inbabitants took refuge In De- troit, where the remalvod until the Jollowing wutumn; they thenreturned o telr desolateand denuded faring und humes, It was too late, of Lourse to plant uuy crops, and 1he supplles 1 the Httlo umlet wers scanty iddecd, Tho tew upples remalutug on the trees, with o Nide wheat und vorn brought from Detroit, together with with what guma the forest alforaed the hunters, constituted the tuod snpply for iLm colonlsts for the winter und spring, und it miy well be lwaglned 1at the sullerings were ot thues jutenss, ‘flie returoing settlors . found the ground wmtunhui With the boncs of thelr comrades wid of those bruve Kentuckiane who hed given up their lives In detense of this litue colony, ‘Thuss bones were wathered up wiad buried, whd suine veurs 820 (in 1515, Lthak) theywere interred in # proper receplacle, and a deputation of the cltlzens of Monroe accompanied them to Ken- tueiy, whero the retulus were interred with the honors which thy pairiotism of the brave meu duserved, Mack, BUCHES WURS Wil- ——— A Popeon the Hlage, A Pope has been seen on the stage at Rome, Plerro Coseny 8 popular Itatlan plavwrucht, has gone to the Pupacy itsell for G sublect of bl lutest trazedy, ** The Borgd, "Lhie leadiug temate charscter of the piece, the §ll-fated itosa Yauozzy, the wistress of Pope Alexsnder Vi, und mower of by fuTauious calldren, was played by Virginla Moriuk Ttare wis o sepsation dn x[’m teatro when a Pove marcbed upon the boards. Up tu the year 1870 no dizuitary or otlloee of the Church ' was peemitted to be bl trionlcally repre.cutet i Rowe, und ouly ouce befure, siuee Lhie incoruoration of e ity futo the Ttaltan Kiogdom, bas o Pope been seen on the stuge, und that wus lu 4 suburbau theatre, NNESSEE. The Proposed lssuance of Small Bonds of the State. Arguments Advaneed by the Hon, W.J. Bykes in Favor of the Measure, Gov, Marks' Mesxage as Lo Alleged Legislative Cor- raptica Involving Millions of Dollars. Spectal Correspondence of The Tribuna, NagnviLre, Tenn., Jan, 10.~The success of the minatl-bond system tn Georgia has attracted conslderable attcution of late, and the pub- listhied views of the Hon. William . Sykes, of Columbia, Tenn., rezarding 1he proposed fssu- ance of small bonds by the authoritles of Ten= negses have elleited n great deal of cotnment on the part of the press and public. As the Gen- eral Assembly, now In sesslon (n Nashville, {s easting nbout for a feasible plan tu retleve the veople from the distreas which they are larbor ing under ot present, TIE PLAN OF MR. KYKES may be worthy ol conslderation, even If ftis not adopted. ia Idea fa, that bonds of a small denomina- tion, bearlng 4 per cent futerest, should be is- aucd in llen of the existing 6 percent bunds, and that they should be taken by the present hold- ers of our bonds. During u conversation with me, Mr, Sykes snid he belleved the arrangement might be made, to the rellel of the publie, nigl Hot to the detriment of the credhors. He did not ndvocate foreing the creditors to tnke these bonds, because any forced compromise would be uo compromlse. It was the idea for the State to scll the bonds, but for the liotders of them to dispose of them to citizens of the State, Swmntl bunds would bo more valuatle, at better orices, than large ones, beeause there would be so many persons able and wiiling to buy them. They would be worth, he thought, more to the owners than large bonds would; and, at the same time, they WOULD DE WORTII MORE TO TIE PEOPLE of the State, because they could exchungo thelr lund and other property for these bonds, as they would be useful und in demand for the purchase of property fn Tennesece. Alabanin had jssued &mall notes or bLonds, bearing 6 or 8 per cent {nterest, when her financial eredit was very Httle better than thut of Tennessee now {85 umd they had answered a very valuable purpose. Virzinta, in varly days, ind dote something very slmilar to this, with great success, as mizht bo seen by consuiting Mr. Jefler-on’s letter to John W, Eppes. ‘the Georgla plan, somewhat similar to this, it 1s sald, will succeed; snd there was, i1 his opinion, no_reuson wi like policy will not succeed In Teunestee, provided olways that an intent be had to make prouipt pay ment of the futerest and vrineipal os they fell due. Unless this was doue, no olan woild_be ol auy service. 1t 15 the poliey of every State and every inunielpal corporation to have its debe duo to its own citizens, 1N SMALL BUMS, se that all, rich and poor, may own some of the honds of the btate or of *the municipal corpora- tion, A home debt s much more easily, nud will be more certaluly, pald than a debt due sbroad, It was to the Interest of Tenncsseeans 10 exchangze thelr bonds for their debts at falr rates, because, In thnt event, the State would get more fminigrants, med the Jande would athl remaln ns o opart of the wealth und property of the State. Capltalists who wish o hold bonds prefer " bonds of o larze denominations but smull bonds will be much more In demand, and will commaml bet- ul, eryour creditors are not willing to take small Imudlunlln:l{. Jet them wgree to have half of the bonds Isaued fu small denomina- tlons, andd the other balf i 2500 bonds, Auy settiement thut doesmob mevt with the assent of both partfes cannob be considered binding, andt would be of but little, If uny, value. Mr, 8ykes further safd that he was NOT WEDDED T0 ANY PLAN. Te had sugzestedn modificatious, woulthe thought, be bevetlelnl to il As ncitizau of Tenncssco, aud nsu Demoerat, he wag Azxious to see this question settled upon almostmny fair lerms, becunse he thought 3 fallure tosrottic it would_be rufnous to tie State und dumugioe to the Democratle party. According dot mocratie plutforin adopted lust summer; by thought the Levisla. ture was bound to submit o a direet vote of the people any proposition that a majority of the bondholiders might make, 1t was for the prople, accordlng to the platform, and not for the tiencral Assembly, to determing what they would sreept, e delieved, however, that thy bondholders ought to makae such u reasonably proposition, having a ducregard Lo the Interests of all, as the peoplo would be likely to aceept, amd us the friends of the State credit could advocate with a strong hopo of suceesa. GOVS. VONTER AND MANKS. The term of ofiice of the Hon, Juines I, Por- ter as Governor of Tennesseo has expired, and the Han, Allert 8, Marks bns been elothd with i1he authority of Chief Exceutlve of the State, Having doffed the rotes of office, Gov, Porter leaves toamorrow for Puris, leory County, his :;hl lome, where, hio will resumie the practice of aw, ‘I'ic successor of Gov. Porter I8 an advocate of reforu, nind has evinced the sincerity of his views In that respect by upprovine o bitl to re- dugo his satary Lrom 3 1,000 to 33,000 per anuum. Sueh an instance of true refurns {s rarcly ot with fu_these thines, ond I8, therefore, cutitled tw the warmest commendation. A PROVOUND SENSATION was produced in the Benate und Houso of Rep- resentatives when the fullowing rewurks, cui- bm{ll“l fu the messuge ol Gov. Marks, were reads *'fhie next fatal step was the fssue of addl- tional bonds 1o the amsolvent ronds. It was donie under the pretense that 1T was necessary to enable thuse rouds to mcet the fnterest upou thelr ante-War bonds, and this protect the tax- payer, Allof the bonds were pretended to bo jgaucd under varlous smendments to the act of 185152, ‘Uhe aimount dssucd wus $10,08:,000, "Fhere were honest men in the Legisiative Bodles which authorizea this fraud, but their efforts to protect the Stats were unavalling, But thefr manly protests exbibit the shutueful methods cmployed In the perpetration of this vast fraud.” The facts sunscguently oflclnily devel oped, in connectlun with the Journals of two | Houses, show that spproprlations were retused unless e imembers wers paid to muke them, 1t anpears thut bunds wess sold b u Targe dlscount to ralse e to pay members to ‘ulu fur further appropriations. 1t appears 1, with 1he proceeds of bonds 8o sold, o mlu- Ister of the Gospel was employed to manipulate mebers of tho Leglalature, and that, whea ho reached whe Capitol, the il nuthoriziug the fssu- ancy of bonds had been rejeeted hy s decided ma- Jurity, Inthe morning e opened the proceedings with prayer; Lulore meht the yote waa recon- sldeced, und the next the Dl passcd with bt two dissenting votes, This bill upbropriatea §4,000,000 to thy insotvent roads. It appears thut relatives of bigh ofticlals WERE PAID NONEY, the procecds of bonds, to Induce favorable ac- tlon fu the turther issuance of beods, 1t ap- pears that bonds were sold ut 4 largy discoun to pay fntereat, i urder to conceal deliuguel cies, ‘Thut the proceeds were used to pay hieh salaries to mllrond olliclulas to pay exorbitunt luwyers' freds to puy uid debts; und, fu short, applied to an utinite varicty of aiher unluwful purposes, §t appears that “the Goveruor, who was clothed with the puwer to decido waen the Taw was complied with, delezated bls power o {saue bonds, sind that wany of thew wers slgned and bssued by oneuf iy subordinates fn the City of New York. ‘the crodigal wuste of this vast suta cat o u“uuulmud waon it {s stated before the War, tie State had appro- bouds to the tosolvent roads fust ‘fennesseo to the amount BEi1,000; that, - after the War, for of the alleged purpote of protecting the tuxpayers froms paying Intercsi oo the 1,000, there was fasued 10 the fusulvent ronds of Kaat Tennessec $4.617.00; that, wicn they sald, the! vrougut fu_deprecksted bonds $738,000, worth not wore than ¥,000 i curreney, THE 3SML DISASTROUS FOLICY was pursued in deuliug with the delinquent roads of Muldle aud Weet Tenugssee.’? The preseatation of the mesdowrs was followed by the Infroduction, aud reference to a Commit- 1ee, of a fusolution requesting the Governor to subilt to the Logislature oru Committes all documentary aud otucr proofs i lits pussession, 0 order thul the gruve charges mado by biw wmight bo proyen. AriioL. .The Boston Joursal bas taken some trouble to obtaw krom the priucival lund-grung ratlroads of the couutry, sul from the Goverument Land Odive sud the Governors of Western Biutey, Feports ws to the sales of lands durisg e, which, with proper- the I w yearn, The result of Ita Inquirica is presented in the following table, togethur with the catimated fmmirration to the United States during the same yeara: Goreynment Rallroadland Immigra- lantt sles, tales, acres, 1,000,600 DHO.000 14, 000 830,000 1,100,000 1,£00, 000 2,730,000 ‘The forceolng statement (ncludes the Guvern- ment-fund ralea {n all the States and Ternilorica except Texar, which State uwns Its own latula, nnd the anles in which do not appear in the Goy- crnment reports. 1t ia estimated that the sale of publie lands in Texas in 1578 was not less than 1,000,000 ncres, ‘Yhe railrosd-lawd sales are based on reports from twenty of the princi- pal land-grane Mnes. [t will be observed that the sales of Government uid ratlrond lande in 1878 targely exceed those of 1672, while the fm- migration in 1873 was only a littie more than oue-third what it was in 1872, “The Inference Ia that the rales of Western landa Ingt yenr were principaliy to persons moyvine from the Eastern and Miadie to_ the far Western Stater, How- ever this may be, the figures Indlcate not only a remarkuble inovement of vooulation, but a rp- markable development of materlal resources. The of publfe lauxts in 1878 were more than twiceas wreatns In 1877, The total salesin 1873, estimating 1,000,000 neres s the sales i Texas, were 11,302,216 aeres, or 1uore than lnlf the area of the State of Indiana. ‘These facts lnd(ulllu cnormous strides in notlonal develot- ment. FRANCE AND AMERICA. Arrival of M. Leon Chottena on & Tour of Investigation—A mmercinl Treaty to Bo Framed=The Advantuges to Bo Derlved from . New York Iferald, M. Leon Chotteau, a delegate from France in the Interest of the Franco-Amerlean commer- cial treoty, arrived lere yesterday on the Amerlque. The position he oceupics Ix remi-official, have Inz been selected for this fimpoitant missiou by & committee of Senatars and Representatives of the French Chamber of Deputies. M. Chotteau well werlts the honor thus bostowed on him by the youne Republic, as he has already spent some thne in the United States, having traveled in this country on two previvus oeeastons aml Leing thoroughly conversant with Amer- fean affatrs, wnd especially commerclul matters. In his own country he s well known as au cconumlst and publicist, He followed the profession of the law at Parls, gaining quite au coviable reputation. About ten years ago, from the perusal of Americun literature, he became Imbued with the desire to vielt this country undd learn somethilug about its peopic und their babits. After his rojourn here lie returned to his nutive country, nud, by his personal influence, did much to fuster the grow= fnz commeree Letween the two natlons. Last year he again visited Amerlea on the same mis- slon as thuton which he now comes,—to jtcrease the commerce hetween the two countries by re- noving ail the legislative abstacles, such as pro- bibitions o high taril, that le [o toe way, M, Chotteau was lound yusterdsy afternoon ot the Everett House, where he wili reside dur- ine his stay in thia city. On making known the object of lis visit. the reporter was received very cordially, nnd M. Chottean atouce began to ex- rlnlu with enthusiasm the scope mul purpose of hls inission to tns country. “You see,” he sald, * [ haye been chosen by a commiltee of Henators und Representatives wo come to this country to gather the reports of the different Chambers of Commerce with a view tu establish n commerclal treaty, When [ came hero the last titme my intentlon was stuply to Invito delepates from tie Amerlean people o dliscuss the question at 'arls, ‘Ihese delegates, both from the United States und fromn France, at Paris, agreed npon a vertalu project. ‘To-day ft 1s my mission tu nak the Chamnbers ot Com- merco what they thiok of that project,’ + What wad the plan projposed ? “‘The principal puint of the project declded upon by the delegates lust August was that Amerieau goods stiould e adinitted 10 Frenels ports on au cquality with thuse of the m tavored nation, which at present s En- gland. According 1o this pltan all Amerl- cun products could be fmported i France on the same basls as the shnflar products of England. _Un the other Laud, o reduction of the duties ou French articles was required fn return, 1n France we have two kitnds of tarlil,—oue, cun- ventional, for the natlons with which we have already commercial treaties: the other, o gen- ¢ral taritl, for the natlons with whit huve no such treaties, Now, there ts no commercinl treaty between Amceriea uwd Frauce, conge- quently the products of the United States comu under the generat tanfl. According to It manv things are atsolutely prohibited In France, such as Americau cotton, swost Ameriean woolen staules nud cast-fron products, wd five or six uthel We offer you as favoral terins s uny other natlon, but Wwe do not kuow cxactly what we can ask of you {n return.? Which country wonld derive {lt trom sach an srrangement 1! Well,” replied M. Chuitean, emliling, *‘on my voyage from favre, which [ left on the 4tn fust. i the Amerlyue, I becaue acqualnged with a gentieman from Phitadelphia who argued that a treaty of commerce alwiys inured Lo the profit of the rleher natlon. Wedo uotaceept that ltea at all. We etend, 1if possible, to conclude a treaty for the benetlt of both nutions, My cosition (8 neutral, 1 believe 1t s poseible to perease the prosperity of both nations by such o project as we lave i view, provided the mat- ter §8'in good bands, T am surs (0 will be possi- ble to have u good treaty, aud 1 s fow months I think the question witl” he how 1o fucrease the prosperity of this country nnd of Frauce,” How long do you expeet to remaln in the Uuited Stutest™ inquired the reporter, * 1 expect Lo spemd some tmg here, probably the montnof July or August, 1 will Temmio u fuw davs In New York forrest, after wlich | shall proceed to Washington to pay my resped! to President Hayes. ‘Vhien | shall come back tn New York, und after studying whatever may be of nterest here will vo on'to Buston, Baltlnore, Philagelpbita, New Orleans, Cincinouth, Chicago, 5t, Louls und San Franesco, T jutend to study all the prineipal industries during my sojours, “Then we shail collect the reporis of the Chai- bers of Counneree of the United States it of France, obtaining expressfons ol thar views on the projeet, aid submit them to the respective taas o busls for atreaty. 1 thiuk mme can be dinished by Jdune or ‘Ihe movement s at preseat taicly unaer "lhe Rreater wa M. Chotteau here expressed hia bellef that the great majority of the Chamber of Com- umerce was In fsvor of the plan, He bad no doubt tut it would Le carrled to completion, If the Ameriean people took no interest o thy wmatter, b sifd, of course there wauld e no treaty, But i aomerchant, who to<duy got 20 franes for an article, foatd that, under a treaty, he would get 25 or 80, then, M. Chotteay thought, people would tako an (ute in i Same desultory conversation ensned, durlng which M. Chotteau dwelt Gpun the great suc- cess of the Awerdvan exindit ut the Parls Expuo- sition mid the murked imoresslon it hud left on the minds ot the Frenet peapls in rewund to American progresd. He sald an nternationst exhitition m New York wonld he of great - terese to the Frenen people, and that 1L wh an euterprise that should be undertake: ————— THE ADVENTURES OF A PORTRAIT. Spectal Carrespondence of The Trinune, Des Moines, [a., Jau., 25 —Mrs. 8, A, Bluckley, a talented artist of thiscity, bas painted s verv strikiog und truthful portrut of the noted ofil- cer, C. C. De Rudlo, now befure the Reno Conrt of Inquley as wicness, which is likely w be- conie as nuted ué ity orizinal. Notloug agu, a man with whom the artist was slishtly soguaint. ed, I1. W, Btoessinger, propused to her 10 take the poloting to Omahs und sell ft. Heagreed to guarabites ber $300, uinl no expenseai aud, It ho could not et that, he would return the plet- ure, She gave bim the painting, ju about wen days, no tidluge bhaving been recelved from Btoessluger, Mre. Blnckley went to Qmubia to luok after the pajnting, She learned thut Stocssinger bad seprescuted blwselt gs bor awent, and bud coutracted several Lilly, at the hotels and elsewhere, ‘Phe patinting was brouzht to the house of Mre, Matllaa Ward, where Mrs, B. was stopping. Btocwsinger's creditors ot onee demauded paywent of Sirs, By to secure Which the patttiue waa uttached. Strs. Wurd suggested that, to trotect husseld aul the palute inz, sho make a bill of s3lo of it to ber fur §75, which was doue, Mre. B, riving u seceipt for that swount. Mrs. Ward's husbaml sepleyied the puutlng from the ceditor who had sclecd ity und took it bome, when Stoessinser shilpped it to this clty, be and Mrs, B, followngs it Immedlately on their arrival - bere, they werg wrrested by an olficer from Omabs, chsrged with larceny of the paittivg. ‘Lhey were taken befurs Judie Mlller, whore Mrd, Binekley showed 1that she Wi Bot 1 any wlse re- wpoisible for the acts of Stucesineer; that she nad recelved not u ceut frum bim or the Wards for the ploture, und bad bees vbliged to pay over $100 to wet possceslon of 1t yguin, fu comnc- queuce of Stoessinzer’s consuct, Sho was dis- charged, aud now Urgs suit Jus false Jwurlons 9 ment azafnst the officer who arrested hes azainat the Wards, to recover Tor maliclous prosecution, L AN OLD ACTOR'S CHAT. Charles Webb, the Oldest Dromlo, Spenks of Hila Stage Experlence, Covoring More than Malf » Century In England snd Sixc 3onths In Amerlea, PMiadeiphia Timse. About twenty years azo the Webb Brothers were known In’ England ns the dramatle stara fawned for their rendition of the two Dromios, in Bhakepeare’s * Comedy of Errors,' Charles Webb i= the surviviog one of the two, and when the Dromlo of Ephcsus was gone bie, the Dromio of Syracuse, was left without n double and ccased to be a star In the theatrical firmament of he United Kingdom. But before he becames and 3,00 damages Dromlo he was an actor for a long time; Indeed, the span of his stage experiences reaches over fifty-odd vears, aid althongtt he I8 veralng on three score and ten e t4 an actor ver, and- onc, tou, from swhom not a few in the vigor and hower of manhood might serk to learn how the last week e of Shakspeare should be read. bie was at the Arch Street Theat atdd Crane's comany, and wan coineny uf Deontios of the two comediane, ol read the soirited lines of the part with muep effect. In Iis long stage experlencn it (s Evari ely necessary to say that he has bottled up many remniniacences, und has o hively recontiee- Uon of the days when Compton, Toole, Cres- wick, mul Macready were **baru-starring ' in the provine il wer far vemoved from the ublie fava ¥ afterwarda enjoved, o las heen In Amerlen acveral months, sd bas seen cnough of theatres here to institute u closs compariaon between acting in - England wnd the Enited Stutes, wid, us hiets & cluse obeerver, his views. as cxpreased to & listening seribe, ure tar fron uninteresting, S AWell," suld the old gentleman, “1 have been g0 Interested with cverything [ have seen here that ontskle of neting ! bave mad.: no comparikons Hat 1t 18 what you want to talk about. Well, blees me, just 1o thinlcof It. 1 rewember when one of tie first stare England over sent to Amcrien wae s utilits man 1 Liver- puol,—~Tyrone Power,—und hey oo fellow, died ut a tlme he was_just coming to the tull bloom of his quality. I'began octing In 132, ifty- three vears ago, and got 8 shiifinga (32) a week, i a llitle suburban theatre fn London. Willinm Creswick was there then, workivg for the sume ealary, Well, Ldrilted into the provinces nwk then to London as a utility man aud fnally went 1o my brothier's theatre to vlay & Jromo with hm,” tn his own theatre, In Dubling and there botb of us made o hit, which we hoproved for many years, untl} we had played fo every city in the Kingdom und nearly every theatre ‘ns well, Finally Mr. Crane engaze.d me last rammer to cotne to Ameriea 1o superiutend the comedy, and here Tom. My brother died in 1583, The old gentleman speaks of the ** Comedy of Frrors' as though there was 1o other comedy, awl leana torwand on hils coue to tell what lic thinks of Americau actors, acting, und Ameri- can theatres. *You see, { have been fu many Contlnental theatres and every. theatre fn Enelaml, Seot- Land, Trelund, and Wales, and in provabty twen- tv In this country, uml {don't miud telling the truth that ali thé Amertean houses are Incom- purubly Letter than tin Enghish play-honse, ‘Thinga ere dotic o a larger reale herc, tie mag: awement put v a plece with such superbreenery und furniture, und the actors, ns & rule, are c*um- wxgood, und {he rtars—John 8. Clarke, delerson, sl Sothern — that come to our country, are quite qu, too, w3 our own favorite and cherished comediune, 1 doubt i we have o ‘leading mso o Englind who caun in any way compare with Charles Thortie, Charles Darron, — aml W. F. Bheridan. 1 was n pretty old man when I went to eee Jefferson, in Lonwon, us fip Ve Winkle, 1 had scen the play before: had seen it olten, und played ity 1003 but it wus o revelation, snda veeat Enelisb comedian who st by me, and who propos:d to cuine out to this vountry una profeesional tour inn ghort while, turned to me und safil: ¢ Well, Dromio’ ==L am kunown pll over England as Clarles Dromio Webb—* Well, Dromiv, it that man is uspeeinen of the American uctor, hang me i1 1 eare to o there.! le dud o, and scored u fallure, That was Mr. Toole," *Hus the Enclish st change In Four time “Biess me! yes, indeed. 1t has been revolu- tlonfzed, Its” teadenty has been toward ) Freuch deama, as every one kuows, The tone of it has vastly finproved, and the chinrscter of the wen il women radically changed for the better. The ol Euglish plags are razely scen there now. Indeed, the revivals--ns we call them—are at the rarest {ntervals. Such dromas s the ‘Llar’ for ustanee, have mnot Dbeen pruduced fer yuars, ultuough I sce by the pupers that rarely 8 coa- on passes that the draing 1 named, the ¢ Liar,* not produced in some theatre 1 this country, Such men as Itovertson, whu wrote *Ours,* Henry J. Byron, author of *Our loys, ' W, J. (illbert and atbers had much to do with chang- ing the charncters of the Enzlish stage. So you sev the revolution 1 epokie of f< recent, The productions of their pens druve off o good deal of the Freach drama, which, beeauss of its admirable coustruction, can never be driven Jrum the stage sitosether, and almost blotied out for a timwthe Shukspearean dramg, Then we begun tu get our society nctors, but I sin glad to say that such men ws Henry Irving ana Barey Sulfivan, by thele wonderiul $i persona uun'-. held the populsr tuste trie to the greater art.” “ilave you scen suy of Americu’s Bhak- spearean sturs ** ] have only seen of those Hving John Me- Cnliough, Ile was playing Sparteeus o th uhator,” It was it grent portormanee, But T buve sevn all those who have beeu i Buelamd, ‘Uhe late £, L. Duvenport was, to my inind, the grentest of them, aw lum trst whien he v runportiig Corn M 1 hope to write n book an the Awierivan stage when | po laine, although 1f Mr. Crano and Rotson go tu gland to play the *Drondus’=—us [ hope the willy fur I do not think there are (wo ol act- ors in the world who can o 1t so satfelactorily— {vl‘r sps InY e Will be so uch vecuped that wun't be'able to do it." undergone tnuch Bhe Announces Ifor Renunclation of Yoll- ties, Corrcpandence New York Himes. New Ouueaxs, Jun, 10.—1 saw to-day the vi- yacluus andg witty Mrs. Jenks,—the Lotta of the politieal stuge of Lonlslann. She s as brieht and quick-witted In privato us she showed here welf to bem publie Hie, Iler lost *stage lus- fness " was on *timmense hlt," 1o use the foe tenss rhetorie of managers’ English, for there 18 uodoubt here that she brougit the Poteer Committes to New Urleans on §ts pecent visit, Everytody i the North supposvd that sie had wiven a oband for an Ulivery mun fur man, to the Totter Commmttee, wia that the haolancs wus puther [ ber Lavor, even fu Lng secount cur- rent with Gen. Butler, But Mrs, Jenks was not eatistled with adrawn battlvs shoe yeurned with wll the passtonate caruestness of the lewnlne heart 1o be s Water- o conyuteragy aml hee Bttie * drop same ' won fier that rauk 10 the bust contlict ol wit. Bha Just “by chaney, the usital way," & packase supposed 10 contan the orietial letter of See- retary Bherman; aml (L was dected 80 imoor- taut il lians refiirad to permit it to Ieava the o the Potter Connnluee hasten t. Blues Mri, Cunuing- buur's ¥y B oquatter of a century weo, ended 1he Bumd street tregedy with o wacreamlng faree,” there has been no more ridteulods chidine of u grave procecding, Mrs, Jenks declares that she nas redred from Luotiistang polttics, which cvery one will regret, untess Loutsmna polities retires from the na- tioual wrenu, Alter such long runs of melo- drama wid tragedy it 18 pledsant Lo have 4 vaude- vile to relieva e auvlancholy monotony of traud wind bivodetied. Mis, JenKs, us an cxbert i Louisng politics, thinks (L useless to cliangn Federul ottleials in th State, os, whutever o wiay muy be when ke takes ollice, ho soun sdesires to conclhate the *uldest and best.)' Democrats, on the lonz run, have beiter chauces than Republicans. She had been eredited e the Norili witn haviug quartered ali her family on the Governmeot, whicrvas, the only position auy one of thems had sLeured was one pusition us mcsseuger (o the Mint. 1t the Hepublican party succeeds fu 1850, the old Republicans here would Lave the same chotee ue tiey bave now; & lew of them could et minoe willees, while the rest could leave the country. M the Democruts suceceded they would not even have this ** locat uption,"—then Republicuns would bave to Jeavo tue Sta SFor mysell," said the sprizbtly hittle judy, 1 thwk J sball seck out some lovely aland, tuke Gigo, Butler for wmy Bleunerbassctt, uud grow up witls the coun Lauceaworth (Kas.) funes. A short time sgu u discovery of several 1mounds, evidentdy artitlelally coustructed, aud not the badiwori: uf wature, was wade ot what §s kuown us Sherrlen's Drve, ob o rauge of Lills fmmediately to the west of Fort L worth. Within these mounds serg tras stonu-vork us artietic uwl nearly perfect as thut ol the present day, Some davs axo & party went 1o the mounds, aud found 8 sort of book Of gecoris, written, UF translated rutlicl seces of bark, wid placed tozether s [caves ol & buuk, uud t:ed Witk swaller plecos of bark, Among the exoloring party was a gen- tleman from Boston, who had made the fan- guage of Mexico a study, and who, npon exami- nation of the records found in the mounds, found a ehoflarity between the writings in he records nud”the ancient languace of Mezxico during the time of the Montezumas. The record §s n history, a chronlcle of nvents, No dates are given, but from bistorical anal- omy 1t 13 to Le inferred that it must have been about 1,420, during the reign of the Mon- teznimas by Mexleo, when the Emperors of that natne had 1t all thelr own way, {o not only their own aection of the country, but up this ivay as well, The records glve ihe detafis of 8 preat Lattle, probably on the very spot whers the metropolis of Knnsas now stands, According to 1he records, the battle raged for three days, and the eround was strewn with slain,and after the conflict was over the victors, with the pris- oners they had tuken, reversed thelr steps and went back to Mexlco, where the eaotives were to he offercd upon the altars as a sacriflice to their god of war. The records were evidently written by the victors, and placed by them in the mounls where they were found, “The rec ords cunsist of ten large pleces of hark, flate tened out about ten or twelve inches In size, and bound tight together by thougs of bark cut Into Jong atrips and pressed. ‘Thev have been ment to Bostonm, and sre to be placed in the State listorical Muscum there, NEW YORK FIRES. of the Itecent Lostes of the Local nderwritorsmincrease of Iliates In the Dry-Gouds District—=The Blovement to Form n Tarlff Assoclution, New Yerx Eventng Past, Jan, 21, Inquiry was made to-day in regard to the of- feet of the recent large fires on the position of the local fnsurance rompanies. \When ques~ tloned on the subject by a reporter of the Zven- ing Posty u gentleman of lurge experience in the fire-fnsurance business aafd that rates in the dry-goods distriet had been raized from 50 to 10 per centum since the fire in Wortl: street. This advance was over the rates which had actually been exacted within the last few years, wd not over the old tarif or “standard ¥ rates, which bud been generally dirregarded. The uctual rutes lad “varled ercatly, of courre, ucesndinz to the character of the stock or Iwldfugs Insured, but in some caacs, espectally where the smaller compantes wers concerned, they had lately ' been verv low dndeed. Now the stundard rates were demunded by ail the companles so far as Le inew. “The knme gentleman safd that the de- mand for insurance had Iargely increased within the last few deys. He thought that the losses by the Iate flres were 8o much scattered that no company would fml 1 consequencs of them, but sume of the smaller companles had suffered #o heavily that thedr stocknholders night con- clude to wind them up. In regard toconcert of actlon amiong the insurance companiea |n order 0 ufminish the extent of their riska, he sakl that they showed what they could do, when united, by the suceess of their warfare on uusafe Mansard roofs after the great fire o Boston. There was 8o much competition between the compaules, however, thut it was very ditlicult to get all of them Lo act fn tarmony. Atalarre meetingof the local firecunder- writers atiout o fortnight agro, a committee was apueinted to consider n p'an tor forming a taritl wnssovfation. ‘The Chalrman of the -Committee 1s Mr, Nicholas C. Miller, President of the Star Insurance Company. In reply to inquiries this morning ho sald that he ealted” the Commiltten tugether Just Saturday, but that nothing defl- nite was determined on. This movement nad not been “cavsed fo any way by the recent large tlres, but was due to the general demoraization of rutes nnd a strong feeling among insurance men that the companivs must combine in onler to securo a safc und profitable business. The aitlicully in the way of n successful uufon of this sort was the fact that, whiln every company favored it for all the others, cach wanted to be left oot itsclf, wnd be at liberty to make Ita own rates. Previ- ous cumbinations had 1ot lasted because some of the companies were not true to the others, but vivlated the rules to which they were pledzed to adhere. 11 ibey did not sink their dulletences und unite ou o common basis of rates this wonty, they would not. do so this year, and In thut event, be belleved, some of thém would e In thelr groves befors the year ended. v, Miller sald thut the courss of the (nsur- auce compauies In rathr the city fn 1872, after the great fire in Boston, bad accompiished far tore for the protection of property uvsinst fire than was cver cifvted by the Bulld- fug law. By chargog cxtra pree mums for all deniclencica in bulidigs, the cotupunies struck tho pockets o owners, and thereby sceured many needed Im- provements. ¢ plaus of mauy bulldiugs then in eourse of erectfon were ehanged Lo conforo 1o the fnsurance requirements, and alterations fur eafety were mnde {n other structures, which had been supposed w by complete, Mr. Milker suld that belleved the fire in Worth street could not have been ehieeked where it was but | for the altertlons 1o the roofs which were se- cured yeurs nzo by the jusuranca companles, Antu the recent advance fn rates fu the dry- gooda district, be zaid that he thoueht In most casen they did ot exeeed 50 per contum the compnnivs nud not previously lowered the rates in that part of the city to the sane extent as in other parts, ‘This month, Mr. Miller sald, had been s dis- astruus to the insurance companies as auy on record, except the months of the ereat firia In Chicago und Boston, Fires fovolving heavy lusses had oceurred all over the country, awd in il clisses of property, iucluding an “unusual number of dwelling houses und ehurches, ‘Fhe Jatefires in Broudway and Worth strects had tulien more money from {ho fusurancs conpa- nies than all the fres which took place in this ety during the vears 1877 and 1573, Str. Cliton, Pres'dent of the Eagle Insurance Company, was appointed one of the Connnitice 10 provie for ntarlfl assoclation. When apoken with on the sabject to-duy lie sald that he had declined to serve on the Commlttee, ns the atil- tide of bls Compony toward combinations woild not permit hin constatuntly to serve 10 that capacit 11is Company did” not adopt the staudand rates {n 1872, because fn previous unlens it had sutfered by udhering Lo its pledgze while fotae otlier companles l:mll been falsu to thelr ubliationsy {n an underband way, wnl thereby durcased thelr bustess. Theore he was i fuvor of a tariit ussoclation, the we ters af which woull mamtatn good faith, but he ha not ses how one could be sccured. The trouble was o lack of honesty amone some of the companies, Standard “rates were now uhur’:ml i the dry-goods disteict, but thera would probably e a peneral lowenng of preml- uiis uguin us 800N aSLhe Preacnt scuru Was Uyl ——— A CORN TRANSACTION. Sneetal Correrpondence of The Triduns. D3 MoiNgs, la., Jan, 23, —Two years ago sn Miovis man puld 30 cents o bushel for 30,000 husnela of corn, ot Ciarinds, Page County, Ho wis olfered 60 cents for i, but refused, und pus At 4w erib, whera (8 yet remutng, e could vod uow gt 1 eents, —— muntie Lawsult, Efferts ¥ Al Buria Onrressondience London Telegraph, A vurivug case bas just been euzugiug the at- tention of the Parls tribupals, A vouns man, who llved (n 8 smull town I the wilds of the Russtan Steppes many years ago, gradually fin- proved In his busiocss until he at lenzth erired on the Bourse s the great A, Meyer Guraunxel, the huppy possessor of a fortune of several milllons uf irop.s, e had warrled o SMuscovite of rare beau e, Rosalie Loury, —ail he ended by adopting snother Mie, Lou- v, Whom bis wife gave out to be hee sfster, In 1570 M. Garfuukel dled, teaving the bulk of his fortune to hin wife aud by adopted daughter, but exvepting therefrom the sun of l.wu,uud francd, Wwhich way bequeathed to o Mune, Rubivuvitz, livieg av the Town of Bodwlz, Iu Ruusta, W, this Mume. Hablnovita has o curious sl 1, uecording to her own story. She declares hersell to be the vnly deughter of M, Gartunliet, by o whlow named Taoule, whom he wedded lo s poorer days, when he was known as Meyer. 1o support of her pretensions Mme, Ruvluivitz presents several letters written to hersclf by the millionafre, in which e addresses ber #s ma chere unigus el bigu-aimes fille, nud on the strenth of It she clatna not merely the williun and u hall iett her by 5. Garfunkel, but also the wuney bequeathed to the two Lourys. It appears 1hat, secording to the French law, us well as the Rusalan, nu one fs allowed to adopt a child while e bias one stlll yiug, Hence, 3 Garfunkel's act wus utterly fllewal, suppostug Alme, Rubinovits, or Rebecva, us she was catled, to buve been bis ehild. A most romantic sl sousational luwsult bas, therefore, unginated out of thila cuse, which has, us | said, slrcady cu- gaged the attentioa of the Parls tribunals. e et — Saved by tho Warmth ota Dog. Carviigton (1) Entervrl A white man by the nauwu of Covper cimu near frevzing to Ceath u few nlghts slnca sbout three iotles trum Covisgton. [t uppeary tue by voung won was riding @ horse sud becatio so culil that he could nob ride. turned bls horde Juose and luld down 1u the coruer of the feucs to wwast the coinz of & party of huuters, lle weut to sleep and sl his limbs were frozen. Even the flesh from his leys was ready to drop from the bones. But bis faithful dog, tylng cloae boside bl seeued to take o the borr- ble situstion of bis waster, und muking los Led upon the legs of ) the {rozeu wau warined to tife sgalus It was by the Leat ot the Lat Mr. Couper was led Lo pet up snd wall, clas be woula huve frozen 1o death,