Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1879, Page 9

SAICAGO TRIBUNE: IRIDAY, #llk, tade en princesse with garnfture of lace Mre, Houthwick appesred in a costume of binck velvet, claboratels trimmed with ducl An Elizabethan rufl finishied th neek, The bouquiet was of viotets and 1liles of Mer ornaments sero diamonds, Mrs. Julin Bradford, of Esst Thirty-fourts street, wore a clel blue silk princesse robe, with rare laco slcaves, nnid dianiond ornaments, Mrs, Angall woren robe of pale piuk bro- cade, trimmed with duchesse Iace. waa cut Pompadour. Dinmonds were worn with FEBRUARY 1 MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY. of acres are now sceded swith wheat which had heen hitheeto devoted to wool-ralaine, southern part of the Stata the rainfall has been auflicient to excito the best liopes nmong farm-< S0 CAUSERLLS. — Booming===The Lifa in Arizona, and Its Enjoyments. . P cse n8 Cooks, and Thelr Cus- g}q,.-Tlu\ Consumers of (hinese Manuafeturess —_— i ites Ont-—The Buoket- Kmm:yflp—(}ood Harveat: 0, Callfornin will Facts Found in the Calendar for TR, By the thne the crops nro rip the work of th huve elther ratified or refected Constititional Convention, still sittin Theae 152 Conatitut fon-tin! held some 120 sittines, aithough the act of the Legislature only nrovides for thelr recelving not exceedhug on Lhe 2ith of , the peoplo will only conflrm thele pateh- and boteh-work—to imluce thy Legislature pay for the exceas timo consuimed by them, In order to have TIIA PRECIOUS CONSTITUTION ratifled, Kearney and his crew are using every effort to have thielr partirans duly placed on the registers while, of course, those tnen who have reolly sumething to luag are putting off regis- tering until the last moment, - Fortunately, Mr. Kaplan, the Reglatrar of Votes here, termined to put a stop to the” fraudulent regls- tering which has been proing on here for fully ten years,. Ile has lately had soine 12,000 uames struck off theilat.—many of the partles having rocured by purchase -paturalization papers in lank, atd having voted on the styength theros of at vvery election sinee 1868, sauds of votlue papers wera struck off, and dis- tributed to Tom, Dick, nnd IHarry, who were thus able to vote in ns many precincts as they were minded to, It Is quite possible that the vigilance of . the Kearncyites and the neglizence of the hetter class of voters may reault In the former carrying the day; and Dennisds atready hesrd to proclaim what e will do * when e et Workings of (he New Features Recently Intro- They hove—if, dneed--Changeg In Professors, Mras. T. N, Howard wore a robe from Bingat, of ruby veivet nml pale-pink satin, embroldered in rosea and buds, “The garniture was roscs, with diamond ornaments. Mra, E. C, Berrian wore a Jovely tollet of cream-white brocude awl satin, trimmed with batds of embroldered crape-liasy in colore, with garniture of roses il daisics, with amaranth of turquolscs and d N. Btone, of Brooklyn, wife of the editor of the Journal of 'ommerce, wore a black rincgsse robe, with round-polnt lace collarctte; e oruaments were handsome llamonds. Sallle C, Hall, nfece of Mrs, Stone, was dressed In a robo a la princesae of creatn-colored brocade, with voint-luice overdress; garnituro blush roses, corsage a la l'umpn!o Inoreasod Attendnnos for the Coming Yoar—-Altorations {n Degreos, Sneetal Correspandence of The Tripune. Axx Annon, Mich., Fen. 13.—The University calendur for 18730, which will be published In a few days, will prove rather more Intereating than usual, Al the new features which have been introduced futo college work during the past yenr appear in the calondar this year for the first tine, nnd the greatly-iucreased nuraber of students teatifles to the success with which these chunges have been mado, of Michigan has nover been slow In Introductne ueeded reforms in the methods of study nnd vollege government, and has often’been firat to make the experiment in bitherto untried paths. Herconrse in fliese respects has been approved, not only by success at home, but aiso by the sub- sequent adoption of her reforms by other edudh- tional Inatltutions, TIE CALENDAR this year presents fu complote form a clear fdea of the changes which have been introdtced nud which took effect at (he beginning of the pres- These clianges lave caused a rovolution In the arrangement of the calendar a8 it las appeared In former years, as well as {ta enlargement to an octave book of 168 pages. From {ts advance shects Tuz TRIBUNE corre- spondent has been able to glean o few facta , which may prove interesting, Of the changes in detail the public have al- ready been Informed, and it 18 not ne repeat them here. e " kerlng, and Its Coste-Revising ister--Trying Cases ¥ atehing Stockn. nee af The Tribtine —Again the mining- en possession of the commu- bby of the Stock-Board s once , and excited soectilators pass and etop round the brokers® riiest possible Intelligence of uteil; then go offy and the h they themselves had heen hey had given such orders. and storckeopers, Inwyers and tax- Darbers and hackinen, Professors aml afl Yover round the stock-candle and wpoints?; Dbut the poluts generally be that those who tell know noth- swho koow tell nothiug, Bogreat ‘Ihe Untversity MISSISSIPPL OUTLETS. What the Tlaninet Cnrre Crovasso iins Dono to Lower Miasissippl Floods, WasiinatoN Crry, Fob. 8.—Editor KForney's Chronicie: I shall ask the favor for the use of your columns to corrcet somo statements made by a Mr. Robertson, of Loulsiana, as reported In the Record of the 6th. vears to be much concerned as to the dif- cultics attonding tho *crude " Iden of diverting Red River to the Gulf through the Caleasteu. o enya the rldge between the rivers is 300 feet high, and that the bed of the Calcasieu Is fifty feet higher than that of Red River, and that the water of Red River would have to run up hill to It is truo that L have not run a level ucross the ridue he lmagines is so have as good meatis of kuow- Ing the facts about that locallty as Mr. Robert son, aid they are as follows: of the Calensien ot the Guif of Mexlco up forty mlles to Lake Charles und ten above, we have tide-water; from thence to Hinston, the point where the proposed cut intersects the Caleasieu, the curreot Is sluggisly, indicating but little 1all; from Hinston across to the bluffwhich taps Red River, sume twelve miles buck, the back- bone ridge need give him no trouble, for thy high-water mark of Red River s one bundred und three fect above Gull level at that point. From these facts people may judge as to his more overcrowiled, offeed fo et the £a! Ono gzreat aid to his party 18 the neglectof n number of forelgn-born persons who have been hero for many years to register. ‘Chls negloce fe chlelly in order to ANIRK JURT-DUTY} and, from a ylsit to one of the Courts hers when the jury-list is beity catled, wind they all begiu to make excuse, ong would think it would be diflicult to ottaln I notlced that, al- though the juror pleaded deafuess, hio was per- fectiy able to understand the Juage's remarks delivered b a low tone of volee, nman ndompted to get oft beeause his ery aged 70, was slek; but, as it turned out thut be nhabituslly only went to see her after business-hours, he * tou was retained, tempts proved oro s seemed strange that the Judge should have to use 80 much canxing when, aiter oll, the calen- dar wus ouly expecied to take up live days, aud thereon would be vxempt ne could not but come to the concluston that a large number of the shirk- era wers unwilling 1o lose the opportunity of watchiog thelr fuvorite stocks st n time of ex- iuto Yellow-Jucket or out of their Chollnr, sclling thelr Independence, thelr Paradise or socriflcing their W g of Summitat {18 hi, Juatice at the lowest price. e THE CHARITY BALL. Unusunl Richness nand \'nr{nty of the ent collego year. with one nccord = INE MANIA FOR MONRY two gentlemen lnppen to be engaged it {8 no uncommon thing for apand say confidetinlly to ono low much Is there In 6% Ur, Ifa’ introduction for a friend to the reply moy possibly be, ** All 's no money in that,” Or, neain, ftor takes his lcavo with, “Well, I pust bo ot the host may blandly reply, wifell, there's no monoy here," Nay, further, amaninsited to 8 0 o'clock dlnner must not feel ofended should hishost not muoko hls appear- scetill after 7. Press of business will alwavs peasuflicient excuse for tardincss; and,should xeilemenit continue, wo may brokers® offices flluminnted untfl nte st olubty and frato housewlves left to fment thie absenca of thelr lords and the spoil- feeof thelr dinuer. Auy remark about deyot- o too nauch attention to busincss is met with o ilig array of figures. ‘To be told that ¢ traffic here fu_ mining-stocks smounted to §160,000,000; that the wheat-ex- ks exeeeded 9,600,000 centals; that the manu. Itares reachied $45,002,000; that the. coinage of the Mint surpassed $30,000,000; that the pro- dactlon of wine attained 6,000,000 eallons, and t¢ Jumber-Imports 258,000,000 feet; and that " lbe baoking-capital conceutrated hero fa not less thin §200,000,000,—all this 8 very pleasant to Kuow, but It's 8 poor consolation for a spolled dianerand a rufflea hostess, Talking of dinvers reminds me that a wealthy get into the Caleasleu, ¥From the mouth They moy be summed aful: but it cortaluly or to sceure the brondost cuiture possible with- out belne delayed by otliers who are Jess gifted With this Idea in view, much greater varlety in stuaius at auy une time s pos- ‘I'here has beeo for years allowed sentors und junfors in the matter of electives, but the work of thc two first, years, und practically of the funfor year, ulso hns been preseribed. A freshman en- teriug the Unlversity in the classical co arae had 1ittlo else but Groek und Latin and muthemat- lcs during his firat year and ahalf of college life. UNDEN TIE NEW SYSTEM morcliberty {s attainable, while sbout the same work in thess Dravches {8 requisite for gradua- Under the new arrangement an under- clneaman can pursuy for one ur Lvo duys every week such work as he may elect, und the clsale- al freslinan, bestdos his coutinued Latin und Greek und mathematics, may devote part of hils tio to the sclences, modern lanj ry, or whatever branch he may choose and is qualified to pursuc. As will be readily seen, stich o system must break down class ‘distine- tione, anil now the freshman und junlor, the seolor and sopkomore, all indtseriminately may be found In the same ciass-room. college “rushes? between sophomores und treshimen witl have died out, if for o other reason, beenuse the real class distinctions are broken And thus_an ond is attained which no ono can regret. The vew system, duirfo its few months’ trial, has worked adinirably, and all clusses of studenta appear to find it advantage- ous and benelleial, Provision te uow made for admitting students who bave completed the so-chlied ENGLISII COURSE of our Michizan High-8chools, or one of equal value, to studies in the University which lead to the degree of Bachelor of Letters, at ) east 21 years of apge, who do not desire to becomne cundifiates fora degree, ean be admitted without exuminution ‘to pursue special studies, By theso two provisions the cuucational system throughout the State 18 brought Intow still closer unlon with the University, which is its The University uwes much of its puccess to the fnthmate relutfon which it hears to the [Lizh-8chouls of the Btate, und auy strengthening of that relatlon wust tend to strengthen the University. Hitherto the grad- uates of our Enelish Wich-8cuool courses have ot been allowed the:'privileges of the Unlver- those jurors scrving or nasiduous, for another year, elble to the stud more or less libe citement,—gotting ‘Ihiera 18 ahout as much truth in this random stateruent as there is when lie says thut the re- dueed higgh-water mark in the Jower river was not caused by the outlets of Morgsnzia and Bonuet Carre, “but was caused by the belng high ahove; when the facts are, in 1874, ot New Orlenns, ufter the Bunnet Carre cre- yasse oceurred, the river I hiest, amd buylug B i B ed three i o half vater mark ; at Natchez, icksbure, six feet; wouth of White fiver It only lacked two fuches of belog to hizh-water mark, In 18; Orleans, It Jacked six feet of belng 10 bigh- water murl; at Natchez, soven feet: Vickshure, nine feet; when up ot the mouth of White River it only Iacked one foot. and elght fuches of hielng to’high-water mark, Orleuns, it lacked four feet six inches of be- ing to high-water wmark; lacked six feet; at Vicksourg it locked seven feet fivo inches; while ut Waoite River it only lacked one tuch of belng to high-water mark, This shows the effcct of outlets, for what else could have so relleyed the lower ecction when the water was 8o high ut White River] These focts T got from the report of Maj. Benyvaurd for 1876, aud 1 hopo Mr. Robertson wiil inforin himeelf, clse peonle moy think his {deas ore as “erude” on this subject as are those of hls Jetty-Job friend Eads, who, in order to lower the water in the Mississippl from Red River down, would forca all the water of Red River futo the Mississipoi when already full to over- flowing, ‘Truly this Is vertalnly very sclentific Who clse could "vut a quart of water {nto a pint cup and make water run up 11 Joun CowboN. In this connection I will mention that ara clreulating the report that the Bounct Carrs outlet is closing itsolf they aro uskinir money from the Goverimnent to close it by levee, If this outlet fs closing itsell, why o do what Nature 18 doing 1 New York Trioune, Feb, 11, ‘The Charity Bull last night as the Academy o Music justified its reputation ns the most brill- levent of the scason. ‘fenturés were the freshness and clegance of the tollets, the larze attendance, and the unusual number of new faces uoticed amont theduncers. At miduleht the recelpts were given aa $12,000, Mrs. Charles Wallack wors o white Siiss cos- tame, with valencienncs lace trimming. Misa ‘Tutten woreadress of leman-colored satin, en princesse, with sleeves of sllk. A ea ruching of the silk surrounded the trafn, und wus Jisplayed on thu front with sillk Rus- XNatural flowers und pearl ornamncnts were worn with this costume, Miss Peterman was attired in a dress of croam white damusss uud gros-gyuin silk, made en princesse, and trbnmed with Svautsh lace, gar- nished with jacoueminot rosei, vrunments of For 1570, at Now JUBT RETURNED FROM ARIZONA, complalns bitterly ot the mneala he eot there. The moment he got off the railroad-line,—sny iintyfour miles from Yumn,—ha found both seeping and eatlnw sccommodations of the poor- ot At Tucson, cprgs wero $1° per dozen, but- ter 81 per pound, und potatoes 15 cents a pound. There was great luck of water, and in many places the men had sunk to a depth of &) fect without striking water, Baudowine wore a. dress of cream- colored gros-zruln, with ruby velvet, over which was handsumne laco; her orusments were ot din- Miss Moffett was dresacd in n lovely tailet of white gros-gralu, with oleatings of tulle and The slesyes were nlso of ‘Iie ornaments were diamonda. Tiis costume was garnlshed with roses und e, frult-growlng valeuclennes lav consummation. fralt tobe had there, To had Teft Tucson with abot sun blazing down on the Concord coach, o, before the veblele had proceeded ten mlics a clilling blast swept scross the, oot even n heavy overcoat and ¥nos were sufllelent to withatund, altbourh well provided with blankets, he found Ndiienlt to keep wurmn; and the snow und fce of drlzona furnished him with a novel and not eclally agrecublo experfence. lenty of prospectors and miners secking for ¥ork,—more seckers than flnders,—and he pro- Dounces it a wretchedly poor place for a man without money, Of course, when the rallrond Iscompleted, “the cost of transportation will by freatly lessened ; at present the stawing part journey 18 an expensive Juxury, kx- miners obtaining work wet trom £3.25 reatly preferred to the reasers,’ although the latter work Mra. James P, Franklin wore a lovely costume of biue "Lrocat trimmed with poit-lace; siceves of poiut-luce garnfturo of jncquuminot und Marshal N roses: ornameut of dismouds. Mott worc a dress of white brovade aml white gros-grafn, with sleeves of valenclennes lace: corsage Pomnpadour, with or- naments of dinmonds. Mra. W, B, Ogden was attired {n a dress of white satin, with drapery of broeade und sleeves Her” ornaments were dia- ‘I'he garniture was of fuchsins, L. B. Dryer was dressed in un elegant tollet of pale blue sutin und brocende, emoress style, nnd trimmed with crape fringul corsage ¢t Pompadour; ornaments of dead gold nid spend noney t _+ NERVOUS CONDITIONS. Some Interesting Exporiments Made by Dr. Churcot tn Purls. Under the new system, persons over 21 years of nue, who do not desire to becomy candidates an be admitted without exumina- For somo yeara past Dr. Charcot, an eminent After 1081 the medleal Professor, has been giving, at the Asy- lum of La Salpetricre, Paris, extra ofticial coursés of clinical lectures on the nervous mal- adies with which hls work {s so largely von- These weekly lectures have been highly popular, and special interest * has been excited this year, as the Professor has taken up questions connected with sumuambulism and suima) magmetism, o cluss of phenotnunt which been too much in the hiwuds of to, und the truth about which hus been laricely mixed with error and absurd- itv. Repnrting” the Professor’s experlinents Lo La Nature, Dr, Cartaz coneiders he hins given that somnambulism, catalepay, cte., are among the numerous forms tion to pursite speciul atudics, degrees of Bachelor of Phllosophy und Master of Phtlusonty witl not be conferred, und the de- grees of Civil Evgfoeer and Mintng Engineer will bo given only a8 second degrecs. Scecond dearees will be conferred ouly upon examina- In the place of the dugres of Bachelor ot Philosophy hereatter will be conferred the de- greo Bachelor of Lotters, and in pluce of the degrees Mining aud Civil Engineer, as firat de- grees heretofore, the degres Bachelor of Science will he conferred, On and after 1880 applicants for admlssion to the Sehiool of Phurmaoy, who arc tot graduates of hizh echools or of academies of equal erade, will be nsked to sustalnan examination in £n- £Uish, {n arithinetie, fu-algebrs through simple cyuations, und in a year's study of Latin or of of Honlion lace. 1081 per day, St aer dor wud axo Mrs. J. Vanderpool wore n costume of blue damasse and gros-grain silk, with trimmings of hmndsome frmees corsuge o la Vierge; onm- wents of dlamouds. # Miss J. Rundall nppeared in o costume of ciel n, trimmed with bunds d ‘totle I wood aud A8 COOXKS, TIHE CININESE us found invaluable fu Arlzona, as fndeed blue gatin and gros-eral hese clean, white- and ruflle of embroidere gold colors. 'The corsage was Pompadour fitled with crepe-lisse, eangnt with clegunt diamond ornnments nnd finjshed wish blush roses, Miss Robbins, of west Twenty-second strect, wore o princess dress of mauve brocude, trim- med with Breton lace, tired Mongols aro great- housclicepers here to the Euro- Know, where the to n mendleant, covk may frequently be seen hand- tantinl Lreskfust to some sturdy ne of that type who, seelug o weti- i & restaurant this uflernoon after aceosted him with, * Ugh, you | you've been filling your belly e land, and bere ain_ I, who siuco this mornine,” Kearioy head thie other duy orkingmen belug tho s cheap labar,'—tho and clicurs belng gen- When the Cli- all these chieap eoads will the Eust, so thut the ud- [z help. At oue house I fule fs never to refuse vituals On and after 1870 o longer term of residence und study than the pressut will be required of candidates for graduation fn the Dental College. THE PACULTY. Very few finportant addilous to the Facult, have been mnda durine the year, Frunkliy, of St. Louis, was ‘made Desn of the pathic College and Professor of Surgery, vin Thomas, a graduate of the Univursi- ty, Instructor in Modern Languaces, versty, however, will lase soveral of its profes- sors at the closo of the yeur. The preatest loss will be Prof. Watson, who goes to Wiscousin Univeraity, to become there the Director of the Ohservatory and Aatronomy in Madlson Unlversity. Heernduated trom Michicun University in 1858, wnd was her moat distinguishea slumnue, and has been con- nected with the Observatory and University here since 1859, having bren director of thi His dlscovery of the intra- Mercurlal plancts last summer bas extended o utation which wus already great. 1t muy bo i that an effort was made by several promi- neus gentlemson tn Detroit to start a movement Prof. Watson here by building a new observatory und furndshing it with the largest telescove in thoe world. ml‘nlht. bo done for §60,000. Dr. Chareot ahawed that certnin hysterle per- sons could be casily thrown, under certatn con- Thus, a patient is light—e. g., the electrie Ina fow seconds ller ornmments were futo such states, before an fatense —und requested to look at it, or minutes gho becomes motionless inn state of catalepsy, ‘The cyes ure flxed; the lHimbs are snpple, und will Keep any position given them. In this state physlognomy sceins to refleet to somo extent the expressions of the gestures; 10 the limos be put in o threateniug: attitude, the face darkens; i€ the fingers bo joined on the 1irs ns §f to wqve a kiss, the foce and opens but beyond such modifications ttitude the patient remalns fmoassive, fixed, and insensiblo to the outer world, 1f the lutninous beam benow interrunted with asereen: or by closing the eycllds, the catalopsy suddenly lves place to o state of lethargy or sumunmbu- Nsm. The patient falls on her back, her neck being stretched, her breathing loud (accom- punicd by slight hiccup), the eyes cosvalaed, with all ‘the symptoms of the beginning of a tero-eplileptic attack, 'On beine called loudly, sho will rise and come to the person calling, will perforn at request various combined movements, as writing, sow- iniz, ete,, und sumetinies nnswer questions, all the time being In completo anmthesln. Other ngencics besides Hght will bring on those criscs, —e. 17,y thoy may be produved by sound; und to {lluatrate this Dr. Charcot procured a tuning-fork, givior a very deep note, and sonnded 1t when one of the patients was scated on the resonance case; she snon fell fnto cata- 'The somnambulisy state fs casily disal- hated—e, 7., by blowlne fn the face, 1¢ experiment of Dr, Charcol proved that the two states—catalepsy nnd lethargy—could exlst simultaneously in one person, ‘The patlent being put fnto the former state fs nade lethargle on one side by crossi of that side or shntting off the luminous ray from it with s sereen ; this side (sey the left) has then no longer the property which the right nas of maiutalning any given attitude in the hmbs, A peculiar muscdlar hyperexcivablility (as Dr, Charcot further t By gently pressing or rubbine o muscle It can 'be made to contract iminedlately s and on presaing the trank of o nerye, the mus- clo to which it passes will cortract, may be_produced those varlous facial chnnees which Dr, Duchenne, of Bouloine, has obtalned ‘The nature of Lhe nervousdis- ordors in question is_far from belne adequately ot, and Dr, Charcot does not offer ¢ explanations. It is {inportant thut vxact observations should be accumulated, and tho preelse conditlons of the phenomeun, thely maodlifications under suck and such cuuses, ete., be determined, ————— Pythagoreanism. ur Dumb Aninials, Toppor, though ve, awd persistent ju his resistance “of ol bud a natural veln of hunor, which often cavsed his rebukes tu excite n wmile. fn Tinrd streer, Now York, one duy stood in tront ol b 10 beat his overloaded burse stepped out and said, * Friend, didst thou ever tear thut sotne folks belleve that when we dig, i we haven't behaved oursvives in this werld, wo shall have to come back here agaln fn the shapo of dogs und horsesi® “Viye man stored, s i a Mttle donbtful of the speaker’s ssnlty, und then slowly answered, anvbody preach such doctrine.’ * But L ussure tiee,” ropiled Friend Hopper “there are u greal many people in the world who do belfove 1t und T am thinking -4f thou shiould have Lo conle bick 1o the form of a horse, thou would’st bo glad to have o kinder mgster than thou art,” ‘Che man smiled, " aud walked nway Mrs, Herbert _Beebe accompanied her in o dlued scoundeel Her ornuinents were dia- WA the fat of ts bt the pleht nufl *hen he ulluded to “tha wo tael supartera of Chines: shives, elothing, hastd by thut ¢! 2eie shall have gone, 2ain be finportesd fro Yantsge 1o Calllornin lrl'l!. h"znfluonuhln; while dress of bincle iffolr. monds, They oceupfed Box 112, Mrs. Glrard wore it lovely dress of white gros- i, trimuied with bands of black velvet cm- with large pearls, (dered profusel costuine, which was one of were worn with th the hundsowest at the bull. Mra. Cectl woro n toflet of pale pink gros- with. damusse drapings, edged with ‘The corsage was Pompadour njshed with valenclennes lace; ornaments of valenclennes Jace. Mise lenrlaues woro & dress of whito gros- grain mudo e princesse, and trimmed with white fringe. Iler ornamentswere pearls, Benson wore u dress of white broendo with sleoves und drupery of Russian lace, caught in the front by ustuffed bird, Catieo ornaments wers wora, Brown wore costume of cream- colored gros-graln and black velvet, Spanish lace lormed the sleeves, and dismonds were lier pruaments, Mra. 8, 15, 8inumous, nea Saldce Jackson, wore o costume of maize brocade cumbined with bluo Her ornaments were distmonds, turquolses, nnd natural flowers, Miss Doll M. Juckson, sister of Mra, Shmmons, tund pale-blue gros-grain sitk made en princesse; ornuments of dead gold. Miss Anuie Eous was in o lovety dress of pule pink erepe elegantly embroldered In colors; or- unments of pearls, caynlture of aatural Howers, Miss Wolftappeared In o dress of striped satin and grenadine, made en princesse, corsnge u la Vierge, natural violets und Hliea of the valley. Iler ornuments were peoris. c L. 1luas woro o pearl und livender gros- gruin en princesse, trlumed with polnt Jace; digniond ornuments, Mrs. Charles Loub wore o tollet of white bro- cade ntcl gros-graln stik, mude en prineesse, nnd, trimmed with valencieanes lace, was Pompudour, filled with crepo lisse, iler ornaments were dead old and diamonds, Mra. Julla Myers was attired {u au Empress dress or white brocaae, profusel yulenclennes lace and luops uf Humlsome dismonds were worn. bouguet was of violets, |u!luy to the entire fratle mass-meeting was he 010r of the Pusse of the 1d on Baturday fo bill by the House; occuslon wns boreft of all Intorest the prompt cjectlon of the Kearneyites, 48 expected, would hnve mado thinges Deunis thought ft nec- workingmen that thelr ee In attending any politfcal ciy but thelr workiugmen's formor minee 1803, Last it Kty lves were fiy duu; I tieeliny logs. i tg Is 1t was estlinated . ‘The sum was par- subscribed, nid might have been ootirely ralsed, it fs thougnt, but for unfortunate cir- cutnetances, Among the prominent citizens of Detrolt who were active In the project were ex- Gov. Bagley, ox-Secretary Chandler, Janies Me- Msilon, cx-Uoy, Baldwiv, nud others, Univeraity loses another dlstin- guished Professor In U'rof. G, 8, Morris, who has held the chalr in modeen languages here Ile hus accepted an fuvitadon fo ohus Lopking Unlyersity, and will leave hiere J Hopking Unl i d wiil ) 1 o becomes thon lect- rhy. a position which THE NEW KEARNEY PAPER, Loty 18 a3 dull and ponderous o Loudon Zimes, und scoms fuclined paper in the length of editarials. disppoinument to most persons Md hoped to hove something a:::lu url un(:levu}l‘llllz. a8 our two in=ate g paaeryuety Lo o wore o dress of pe: t and the Jiul- vutive to suit the hterary takes the Stock-Keport s th of them fmmense Il besldes giving the Tatest stock- tub the news of the forchoun Appearlng as they do so of the mornlu-session, trude of thuse saloons*| uts admission owing to the belng pluced on the black- dn_the bucket-shops, sterday Lo revive one pPE,~1lie promoter coming olglhe defunct estavll at the end of the year, urer onsthies and philoso) he §s abundantly able to Bl io Assistuut Professor of Greek, A, H. Pot- ill, takes the chair n Greek at Wiseonsin He s umost cxact stu- dent of Greek language und Nterature, und an instructor who hus the reputation of getting a surprising suount of work out of his students. 'Thus tar 1 believe there are no more changes vergity next year, % fustus they were ¢ Was made ye trimmed with sutin ribbon, THE NUMDER OF STUDENTS this year show an- Increase of about 150, and the tutat sumber now fo actusl attendance, 1,473, — a lurger envollinent than thut of any other cols legu In the United States, that of Harvard by sbout fifty, pives the attendance by clusses and dupart- DELGRTYULLY Cool, PROPOSITION: -atack company, and ecided there ean only aid nave prepared & v8 10 Bubserintions for shares. o thlug 1o suit myself at to be manager of the whole af- four weeks, ufter which I will to the concern, ture In this placs, and will seil tompany for - §460, e now und subseribe for Y uro taken wo wili ealt another 81'L Bign Now witl Notwithstunding o, the promoter ends to puc down r hull au hour's bullylng norous crowd, he left, dis. snie 18 up und the oth the ex-bucket- d uvery onu stoins Il events, untll the upward I turndd (uto s fresh do- at m;;":" belps stocks are the Ruicley, YBOVED Cnop yrosrEcTS. 0 bas fallen o al) purta of the of tho.Ban Joaquin ulte encoursging, L of this valley,—kresne. uuLles,—wore wheat hus ¢, uud vegotation hus {on a8 tu muke tanu- dent of & heavy raln. ewlye for . HOFthurn couritles ot @ favorable, uud thousands Vedder wore a Nile- | with electricity. green satin, with black lace garniture and din- Her berthu wus of Iuniton ‘The pumber exceeds mond ortaents, The followlig Thomas Adee, daughter of the English 1.in Bouth Curollna, uppuared in au elo- i ant dress of white satln, with ornaments of Department of Literatur Arts—Itealdent graduntes, third yuar, 67; second year, Devartment of Medieine Surgery—students, total i the -depart- Dupurtiment of Luw—Senlors, 193; unfora, $11. Total,400. School of Puurmucy— econd year, 283 Homeopathic Medleal Colleges—Studunts, n the Cotlege, G3. | Burwery.: Students, total tn the Cotlege, 02, "Total in the Becretary of the Univeraity, tublcs showing the number of studunts who have cotered the University in euch departuient overy Ve ‘The totul number ls 24,008, F'he number of women wno - tave entered the Aifterent departments for 1578-'0 Is as follows: Literary Depurtient, 74 Medieal, 433 Luw, 3 Homeopathle, 13; Plurmacy, 1 Bclence, and the fourth yenr, 403 . Lelghton, of the Rosamore Hotel, wore an elegant costumo of white molre, with bunds of ctel over embrofdery, ‘Chu bottom of thelons traln was eut, and tniss of cut blue satin wero set . Bquares of entbroidery flufshed the irout. Muguiticent dinmounds were worn with Mrs. A. C. Howo wora o lovely toflet of gur- net velvot with a cream silk front, elezantly ¢m- broldered In zold and trimmed with ducticsse ‘Iho sioeyes were of the samne lace, mond neckluce with shell pendants with dia- monds wero worn, as well us large diamond ene- Fricnd lsaac 'lq to participate, Y of hiy p{'uumul L8 few of his fri Wuen he lived & passiug teamster Louse und_began Friend Hopuer Collezu of Dental has just prepare r alnce it orgaiiza- riugs. Mra. Charles Buckus wos dreesod in o prine cesse robe of white damusso und white gros- 18, trimwed with chenille und pear) und garniture were of Mra. Bacjus wore the diumomds which were one of her wedding presents. They ece with u pendaut tu shaps of astar; 8 diumond star was worn In her Diamond earrings completed one of_the handsomest totlets of e batt, Miss Loulse Glover wore a d cade, with triminings of gros-gratn made en princessu, ‘Vho corsaze was cut Pompadour, Jamoud ornaments wWoro worn with this cos tuwe. i Misa Carrle Fowler wore & dress of sca-foam “No, Inever beard duchussu Jace. consisted of 8 necl rats Cunmarcial. B Tha late A(hl‘l‘t’ the most uncivil officers i the oy, lated of bim that heonco fuund in his_room the carit of & youne man attached to the diplomstic voros, who lisy culled durivg the Admiral’s sb- wence, Not long after the yount inun accostud un on the strect aad asked, D yod card Admtralf? Hoshouted out ™ Yes| and uhaka the uutlogk ral Uolitsborough took the hint good-naturedly, ently deading bis tived liorse D8, 1 aiter thues, if tem horse, /e romembered tho pl; ant old Quaker, wnd fusgimed how he should feel If b wera & horse. ed to beat hi L. Mania Cuiep, TWELVE PAGES. what's the meaning of E. P that vou wrole on IL17 4'WWhy that moans en personne, that I $enlled M persan. 1 STt ddoes, ol 1" sald the Admiral, who went off in n mood of disgusted meditation, In n fow days he returned the catl by sending his carid around by n mesacnger, first writing 8 B. N, in ane coruer. Again the two mef. “You recelved my card, did vout" lnaulred the Aduilral, - *Yen, and what does 8. B, N. mean asked the polite’ young man. ‘“8ent by o nig- ger!" thundered ihe Admiral, CURRENT OPINION. A Cipher Dispateh, New York Trivune (Ilep. ). Jareph Butfuce In my name, Iaracl 18 my nation; Moses ta my surname, And ciphering iny damnntion, The Country's Verdlat, Ruftato Express (Rten.). The verdict of the country will be, that Til- dea and his complotters and coparceners lave been convicted out of thelr own mouths; nud thut the country has escaped a great danger when such a wangz of corruptionists misscins By the skin of thefr teeth, the capture of uvernment of the United States, Conkling. tineinati Commerclal (Ind. Rep.). Mr. Conkling is credited with standing by his frien ‘Thut Is supposed to be the great po- Htical virtue, Buat Mr. Conkling has bren quar- telsume with the fricnds of President Tlayes ever since the Cinenmati Convention, and made no effort worth talking about to carry hls own State. When be couldn'L bargaln with Ilnyes sulked, wnd new be acema 1o vrefer s Dento- cratie to a Republican Administration, provided the Repubifean i elean, He Hkes a high rame flavor in an Administration. § Destroying Grarshoppers, Washington Past. The good time fs coming whew the grasshop- per shall no longer be a hurden. A distin- gulshed entomoluzical publicht says they can he readlly destroyed, The process s stmple, When the spring thoe comes, all the women and children are to his thew to the meadows and pick the grosshoppers' ceps out of the roundd and burn then, s are surprieed that his zavapt does not sugrgest o simple made of making this Inbor remunerative, The cee when picked, might be whitewashed und sols for rice. Warried About 1880, Wiltrington (§. €4) Sun (em.). Mr. Tilden Is an exceedingly able politiclan— there 1s burely au abler u all the country—and bie fs really o man who has some of the states- mun's qualiflestions. But his courage is not enual to his persisteoce, und bis trust in his own pood etar exceeds cither his ability to execute or s entdurance. This Jeads the Sun to remork: Firat, thut M. Tilden may secare the nomine- tion of the Democratic party in 18305 nul see- ond, that 1f he obtalns it by unseemly pressure he may be defeated by the people just as be was elected before. ¢ &It Down on Thom, ** Jackuan (Mise.) Tribune (Dem.). We are unreservedly in favor of the abandon- ment of nll * Southern claims " by the Demo- cratie party. They are, in ninety-nine cases ina hundred, the clafins of men who were “ logal to thie Unfon ” dwing the War, or played fust and laose with both sides, In any event, very few of the representative men of the South have anything to galn by thewn, while the Sunthern people have much to jose by thele unwise agita- tlon, Let Democratie Congressmen sit down on thatm, and be done with it. Dannclly’s Case. Pailadelphta Times (. Dem.). Ienatius Donnelly, a gluut statesman of Min- nesota, i ouo of thdmost active nulsances in the country. Helsstill toking testimony Lo show thnt he ought to have been elected to Congress fnstead of Mr, W. D. WashLuen, although the latter had gome 8,000 majority. The whole hope of Dounelly in this contest “is, thist the Demo- crats wilt admit bim for the purpose of securlug the vote of Minnesota In the event that the Presklential electlon is thrown into the House, A Democratic House hus sometimes made u fool of tself, but not to this extent. Tho Prime Qualifieation In Kentucky. Lontseitie eommercial (Rep.). A gentleman apvroaching the raltroad-station in one of our county-towns, not one hundred ‘miles from here, was accostedd by a stranger to him, who had Just got off the train, with a cor- dinl salutation and this remark: ** My oame fs ——3 Tama candldate for —: I was a Licu- tennnt In Morgan's command.’ There was o Demogratic County Convention in town thut day, nnd the stranger was n candidate forn Stute office. Down on the rural districts, where things don’t o on in such & blaze of publlcity, the mnount of service renered the Confederncy is un important clement of a Democratie candi- date's strength. *Traltars to Thelr Sectlon,” Attanta (Ga.,) Constitution (Dem.). Bome of the orzuns, bitten, appareotly, by n political tarantula, continua to declare that the Democracy proposes to pay loyal claims from the South, We heg the organs not to worry themselves, Tt §s not at all within the range of probability that the Demoerats of the South cun efther be coaxed or bribed into stultifying themselves by rewardinz those who are uow willlng to swear that they were, to ull intents aud purposes, traitors to the section n which they lived, and to the cause for which the South- crn people fought, It these lovalists want vey, they should apply to the purty theyare sup- posed to have represented In the South, The South Doesn't Want Tilden, Chartesion (8. (1) Sews (Dem.). The South voted sollaly for Mr. Tilden be- causo be was the Demoeratie candidate, Tle lost the Presfdency not by Inck of votes, but by lnek of couraze. The Southern Demoe- racy, as Mr. Tilden knows, have mo futorest whatever {n the so-ealled War claims, amd aro opposed ta the payment of any of the tittle buils of the go-callad loyalists, 'To sny that the South {8 in the market, selling (tadlf to the hirhest bidder,—the pinin meanings of Mr. Til- den’s worde,—is a wanton nsult. 'The offense of the South, f it be_an offense, fs that it wil not conscut to ho sollout axalu by so tricky und weai a vollticlan as ex-Guv, Tllden, ¥ Polton, Marhle, Weod, nud Tilden, New Yo et The four principal witnesses—Peltou, Marble, Weed, nnd Tilden—wont futo the committee- room prepared with testiimony to show them- eelves in u most fuvorable light. ‘They camo out of the committee-room self-convieted, “They bore up bravely uuder direct examingtfon, aud cach told a fulr story. ‘Fhe eross-cxamina- tion wilted thelr sclf-coneelt, Of the four wituesses, Smith M, Weed was undoubtedly the most skiliful tn his own defense, Mr, ‘Tllden the most pitlable fu his collapse, wd Peiton the most brazen fn his euilt. But Munton Murble camo out In a coudition so forloin, battered, and bedraeled that nobody could help teling sorry for the wreek of the erisp una curt wit- negd Who becan in pride and was finlshed 1 confuslon. \ Ugly Conumdrumin, o+ Newark ddvertier (Lew.). It Pelton wus u fool as well s u rascal—and thut Is the theary of the defense—why dil Mr, ‘Tilden trust him so haolleitly? If Marble was s0 lonest s fricnd of Tilden's, why dld ho nov fnform the old man of Leltqu's disracelul uc- tionsl Af ‘Tilden himsell was too pure to beu party to the erhing, if, a8 he agserts, no Hsp of theso dolngs ever reached bim, or he **would have crushed tliem out at once,’” how can we expiain hls recalllug Pelton trom Bultimorel He know then vrecisely what he s stnce de- nied, with every lega! avoidance of directvess, thwt ho over knew ab ull. s preseus defenss thut ho rebuked Pelton for the South Caroling negotiatton which ented Nov, 21, 1874, tradicted by bis published letter, di 14 nny, syeu the moat remote, kuowledge of sny- thivg of the kiud, O Moxcs ! Albany Journat (lew.). The appesrance nil the pretensions of Marble on the stul are grotesguo fu the extreme, A ehfckensthief {8 caught with the chickens under Dia aris, and ho suswers that be 1s ouly convey- jug them from onu roost to another! A house. brenker ts detected at the dour with the Jim- nius fu his hand, and he answers that he is ouly puttiug them fuusafe place! Marblo s dis- covered with plaus und offers of bribery over Tiis numie, il LY #SWers that ey are uot ol propositions, umd he was ovly convuing them 08 4 *“matter of news ™! Al this stull 15 us pitirul as it §a prepusterons, It makes e - tringle twrpltade of the viort the wiore desplea- e, It renders theauthor of pich o tranaparent attempt to disgulre such an obylous movement 8a oblect not merely of condemuation Mr. Murble Iins assumed more nirs of girtue than anv other of the caparceners, has written In grandiloguent phrases ahout Mr, Tilden's absolute dependence on 1he tmoral forces, and about the ark and shechinah, present preteuses will not Impose upon any person with gense enough to know the differ- ence between n dodo and & chiureh steeple, und they only cover him with the more contempt. THE SINGER BUILDING. ‘ Terms on Which Carson, Pirie, Scoit & Co, Secured It. Prior Negotlations with Field & Lefter and Mandel Bros. ‘Worse OIF than E Toledo Blade (Rep.). The only surprising thing about Mr. Tilden's testimony given to<lay s the transparency of the subterfuges resorfed to by hin to screen No one has doubted thint he would deny o knowledge of the telegramns and disa- vuw all connection with Pelton, Weed, Marble, Tilden's well-known abllf- tv In dark futrigue, und from the motnentous- ness of this occasfon to him, it was goneralivy expecied that he woukl develop some masterly finesse to aecount for his entire izno- Fram Onr Oun Correspondent. NEW Yor, Feh, 12.—Calling at the central oftice of the Sinkzer Manufacturing Company, In Union Square, I obtained from an official of the Company the following infermation with refer- enice to the lease of their huilding In Chicago: Very suun after the areat fire In Chicago, the offictal sald, the Singer Company purchased of Potter Palmer the lots on the carner of State and Washington streets, as a speculation. ter having procured a plan for a building, the Company made a contract with Mcsars, Fleld, Lejter & Co, to finish the bufldiug in styla sultable for their rotall dry-gnoids trade and to lease it to them for a term of years, at a yearly rent bnsed upon the actunl cost of the preinlses 1 Bullding at that thne was cxpensive, nml consenquently the rent was . £80,000 n year. The loaso was . g of the bullding on But, from Mr, e of thefr dark doiugs. He has, however, disappointed very bauly those whao bedeved in his fertility of resource, und still worse those who, recklees of whether he was innocent or knilty, expected him o furnish something to dve thent o gronnd to stand upon amd defend: ifin for the sake of Democracy, bad utight both bis political fricods and the be- llevers in hin astuteness. pon the tazes. Tarite,~more than terminated by the hurning A Funny Defensn of Mosos, Lttea nsercer (Dem. ), Ar. Mantos Marble is always eccentrle, his desire to be epierammiatie lic usually be- wildera bls listeners—which Is bad,—and tvarl. sbly bewlilders hinself—which would b diflicult to fing a povrer witn ‘Ilie peenllaritics of his ¢ the babits of his protession comsine to render (b difffeait tor hin to wive a direet answer to a di- newspaper-work he seemed to take pride fn evadime ihqoiries, and treating them as conundrims to be met with an exblbitiot of verbal smartness. He tos jugeled wiih wards 80 Jontr that they have b him the tools of his trade, and not the means by which information fs convevedl, draw the [uference from s « Marbie ia lacking i hos He ia a pure man, stre for clean politic rulued condition, or to mike a contract he store should be re- '8 viaws, and then Jeased at ullable rent. This attempt fo reconstruct bullding speclatly fur Field, Letter & Co. failed. The partles could not agree us to the il Leiter & Co with that firm why Lulit 1o sult the firm’ ‘Then the Slnger Comnpany determined 1o re-. bulld the store, without belng bound to sny particulne firtm, und without dictation ga to the methal of executing the work, completed, and, In the judgment of many ex- awiners, there 18 ne bullding in the world, cone structed for a llke purpase, superior toft, 1L was supposed by the Singer Company that Fleld, Lelter & Co, wanted the store, nnd wouid Alter it beeame nearly rendy for oos enpuney & feass of it was offercd to them, and not a hittle negotlation took place between the e o toal attempt toclose a . MeKenzie and Proctor, oflicers irer Company, went to Chicrgo aud it cenferences with Messrz, Field, Letter & Co., without beimg able to arrive at rect guestion, ticist thut Man- ty or consclen il an enthusiast in hix o he could be put on o diet of single-syliubled pbrases fur a year or two It would do hint inuch rood. barizain, Mess) Wil Defeat 10 Pattudelnhia Récord Undy. Thousands of men who know the astuteness of Mr. Tilden as a lawyer und politiciun will be- lleve him, for the ‘reason that they think him incapable of belug caught fu so flimsy a traps: other thouaands will think that a man so subtle could yot have been clther fenorant or difer- ent to the futrigue progressing under his nose und involving a matter of such profound moment to hiing and so the wmatter will o into mstory. Nothing {n the evidence adducea bas directly fu- culpated or exculpated Mr. wmd detlant denials will convinee those grlends whose fajth fu hit bas reinniued unshaken, but thiey will not dispel the eloud tiat has been cast. upon his reputatton. The best that can be posi- § ir. Tilden is that Iie did not buy the votes thut were offered him, the offers were made known to ta bave anything to do with such n s ‘The expusure of the dispatehe his_meddling and ndisereet supporters will duubtiess defeat Iim for a renomination at the bunds of his party. tenominntion. Chicago, Messre, MoK, a tinul offer of the huliding to Fleld, Lelter & Co, nt areat of £50,000a year and half taxes, yeare, with_the privilewe of nzie & Proctor made upon & lease of fiv i flve years' furth all the taxes. This offer was not aceepted, and afew days afterwurd 1t was withdreasn, TIIE NEXT PARTICS proposing to become tenants of the bullding were Mandel Brothers, to whore a refusal waas elven for aboat three weeks on the snmo terina which’iad been offered to Field, Letter & Co. Atier consideration, und within the time lHmited, Maudel Brothers concluded not to take the lease, Prior to this Carson, Pirle, Scott & Co made applieation fur the Jense, mud upon a re- oplication were informed that 1¢ lonsce on the samne terms as urties, Then camg newal of that a they conld bave t. were offered to the other the deatruction of the Post-Ullice buthting, he temporary occupancy of 1he basement of the Singer Butlding ns the Post-Oflice, ut that thne Fleld, Leiter & Co. recom- to obtain the iease of the broker came on to New uined nhout a week, und urzed ery zealously, He was informed Singer Company was yet free to muke & cuntraet, hut that the terms wonld not be varied fromwhat hiad been otfered before, exeept that his nrinclpals could bnve the Lenetlt of au obtained from the Pust-Ofico 'he broker returned to Chicago without accomplisbing noything and within o day or two therealter a verbal contract was i hie refused menced negotiation New York Erpress(Dem.), Mr. Marble's positive testimony, after remov- Ing the immense plle of verblaze with the ut- most core, amounts fo very little, It exoner- ntes Mr. Tilden of direet persounl knywledee of the damaping negotintions, eelf amd Pelton in a terribly uncenviable light, 1t {s not strange that Mr. Marble went to Fior- 1dn, but it is strange that be went entirely on his own motion, und without explicit under- stunding with Pelton, Tilden, or anybody as to what he should do there. 1t Is not, strange that Interested observer of nud events in that State at such u time, but it < But it places him- CARSON, PIRIE, ACOTT & CO. Other proposals to renew negottation were made Dy Field, Letter & Co. after the Singer Company had ceasea to lave the power to cutertalu them, It s been futlmated tn the Chicago pupers, sald the oflical, that the Singer Company had. ogreed to put maney into the buelness o son, Pirfe, Scott & Co, That rutnoy is not true, ‘The Sinzer Company §8 not authobized to, uud will not, enzuge (n any sinch outside business. 1t i8 right to say, however, that the Singer Corae pany, before muking the louse of its store to Carson, Pirie, Beott & Co, agpured that that dlem couid wnd would comie mand all the necessary capital which the ex- teudea business ut theirnew store wouldrequire. MUSICAL DISCOVERY. Manuserlpt Works of Iinch ¥Found In an Old ‘Truntk und Used For Padding Frult Trees. Londan Tetegranhy, Jan. 5. Great. excitement has been created fn German musieal clreles by the dizcovery, in anold coun- tey mavsion belonglng o the'nuble Buxon' fam- 1ly of Witzthun, of o large number of manu- Feript cumpositions Ly Jolin Sebastian Bach, Intherto belteved to aye been frretriovably Jost, All the works produved by the {llustrious suthor Forty™ 1 the course of his fruftful lifo are recorded, tivedy, In Mizler’s adinirable e Musteu! Library”; uud hundreda of weltions ilierein mintloued bave alth- et mysterlonrly infssie. ructlon, by aceldent or oth- undlsgoverabic, orks of the firat plugnitude, i which it is believed thut Bucl’s sarpassing gemus found Its most exalted expression, sucit us the Passlon aceordhig to Safnts Mark wid and the Graud Christmas Oratories, A {hcory bas long been ventituted in the niusjeul press ol Germany to the effect that, were an exhuustive search fustituted throush all 1he dis- triets wnl places at one thne or anothier inhablt- ed or vislted by Bueh, it couldsnot fatl to be pro- duetive of gome profound) fubert Franz, the well-kuown eonsposer, sl editor of Bacl's works, dotermined to un- this enterprine, aud set ubout It fn the inute and patnstakivg manver fioogls 1l went {roin town to village, and from yilluge to country house, examinhig garrets und cellurs, wind turning over vast accisantations of meonvelvable rubblsh, but vah, 1o Schiluss Witzthun, thie park towsnd the bouse, ntakes to which the young fruit and ornamental trecs bind been ted wers padded with pagier, tne wteut of leather or rugs,generally used in Gere muny toprevent youniz irees from chutlng agsiust the poles by which they ore supported und kept 3o went close to une of these sap= ngzs, anfruared, as bo limself adioits, more by fiie curiosity than by uny -detinjte hopu coui- nected with the inmedlate purposo of s wise What was s oy, what was lus hor- ror, upol recognizing Bach’s well Tesutitul notation upon ke pap He vagerly fuqulred of the cardencr who wasue- compunyinge b throus ho hud ubtulned these 1ephed philegmatically, *ull powers —to It isnot stramge that he infordied his interested personal fricnds whut wos goiuge on, but it I8 incomprehensible that he shoutd re- port items of news in such a way that they were nuturally understoud a5 positive propnsitions, snd were trested accordingly. M Marble's confessiuns and esplanatl uiny Insuperable foraier friends wiil be bewitdere:l and by them. It is easy to belleve that Mr. Marble cominitted o great blunder, 1t s possible to believe that Mr. Marble took part in corrnpt But that Mr. Murble s both n statesman und a fool, an upright aind honornble man und the suthor of the ciphergrams he ne knowledges 1o have seut, and o party 10 trans- actions v has deplorably falled 1o explad s _examinntion nell pagses eredibilivy. culpates himself nor relicye A Northern Democeratic View of Southern ol the ** Eight wn Alfon Sl ) Pesetnt SDeiail, Tonez it musieal The sonuer the National Democratic party puts ftself fu aclear and unequl in regard to the question of Southern elafms the Letter. Mr, Brace's position, althoueh it mmny have been fo defiance of the fdeas il neages that have prevalled durine the last few years, Is cinphuticatly the right one; und, the souner the party conforms to if, the sooner will the people of the North have confidence fn ts profeasions of honesty umd patriotisim. lonerer urere the apeclous plea thut the Southern Representatives fu Conzress do not seels the passuiges of appropriotion bills to satlsfy hese Bragg's specel was called out” by an ¢ffart to pusl through the House a hill laokine to the payment of ono of them, longer conceal from ourselyes or from the known of their dee Amoug them wer For wo con uo interesting discov- uestion : uml Mr, Tiiden was forced nto A formal renpaciation of 1he claims, anl 1 pledige to vito any wkasure lookin@ goward their vay- Wo assured the proplo of the North, in good faith, that the Southern leaders did not desire or exoees the vaviment of the eluims, and wus nothibie to be feared trom ine legislation to thelr Now it scems, however, that these Southern leaders, fur whom wo appeared as anolugists nnd defenders only two years ago, are attempt- inez to seare Northern Democrats futo their sup- Draizer's speech has proved one startling It ts, that the Southern Congressmen are pushing ther demands for Indemu flcation of their losex by the War, 'I'hie deluslon that wo bueeed to our busoms Lwo yeurs ugo Is thus dispelied. 1t glves the party thoe to take o de- and npon the question before the next . Better 50 than to have the mine ex- ploded upder our feetdu the midst of the con- uutil bo cawo king through paper paddimgd he grounds whencs Up i the lofe under ol therw ore several trunks full of old musle, which was of no use to anybody ;80T took It to wrup round the trecs, 83 tho paper was The Mud Embanlan and o just ay well Waakingtin Clranicle. The Mississtvpl levee advocates, Guding they conld not provall upon Cougress to vole them more milllons for furtber exverlinents with mud bauks, scttled down flnully on u Commis- slon ostensibly to look into the matter of the tiest plun for the Improvement of the river, but 10 fuct, as will be shown fn caso they got con- trat of It, to kil off cvery other mossure save I, nowaver, the Prest- dent, upou whoui the appolntments will de- volve, witl uss 1he ordivary precaution, he may be able to defeas any und all wild projeets that otherwise may grow out of this Commission, by peintment of men who can judge fin- v of ull the plans subinitted for thelr in- spection for the Improvement of this river, thick ol strone, phrpose us Jeather uslie Itup for o lou lutled with 18, TN, hi while, il am very d bt of b stil Franz rushed up to the loft, and found there oue trunk, us yet unopencd, which, when o ralsed the Id, he percelved Lo by crummed full of manusenpt mosie, to conaist ul po jewer Lian 150 vialln sonatas by the gveat coutrapuntist, probable thut the wlorious * Passion Musie, several Chrlstinus Oratunes, uud many preciutis compusitions huve been ¥ used up ' by the Witzthun garaener, happlly unconsclous of a vandalism which cannot fail 'to seud u cold shudder dowi the buek of every musiclan who hears of ft. Raln und snow buwve expunged from this mestunabie * padding * somu of the noblest fssued from the brain of a & s but we may heartily felicltate the excellent musician to whom the world uwes tho hseovery ol tots splendid adilition to s collection of tone gems, it so muny of Baclh's wlssiug works huve Leen suved froni the burbare wus extermination with wulch they were lnwis nently threatene ‘This treasury proved It uppears only too thuir own pol. scheme. cept 8 Commusston appropristion fur bullding themn withdeaw thefr opposition to Capt. Caw- dou's proposition to demonstrute the bility of Lis plan for the small sum of an siount luss than is asked for the Comtnle- 118 work wiil fu nomanuer interfere wi thut of the Commsalon, utid, it hie fails, 1 L of the trinl will be very little (u comparlson to 1 the triends of 1he jettics and thoss of the levees sre jn earnest about benetiting the navigation of the Misslsstopt, they ean offer o reasonablo objectlon to such o prot- osition, und, us slready stated, Ci can go ahesd with it oxperient without in the Ienst cmbarrasaing the fnvestigation proposed The yemovol of ull the leulties now I the wuy of o permuanent hin- pravement of this greut water-course fuvolves too fmportant o problem to bu subordinated to ut purticulurly when they fie fettles wid Jovees) have proven {inpractiva- e o8 well s futlures when submlitied to nny- thing hiky o reasonuble tests lunifestutions. Antl-Iteliglous Boverul tumultuous munlicetations, mostly of an suti-relilous churacter, W o the nlgut of the 14th. sembled before the house ol G shouted repentedly, * A bu: murened off to the ar of 1 the Pluce due ‘Terreaus some 25,000 prople wers collected, yud un aged pricst stiempted Lo cross the squure! A band of young rutllavs percelved and assailed hin with eries und fusults, shuking their flats fn his fuce, rotection to u soldicr who hanpenc ut the Jatter refused to belo blus, Just then roant comne up, placed biingelf ut u priest, und warued the crowd to decluring 1t if any oto toucked tho should gesent it. Jute attitude the mob gave way, und the eccles slustie wus oble to guin bis own house, but was followed by shouls of “ A bas les Cugotel A bas tus Clerlcaux I purolts band us-- the result fn view. thy Commnission, any speetul scheme: the buck of th Befora this reso~ Glve the Cowdun nd we will begln to think there fs estness ut work to turn the Mlsstsstopl to sowma commerclul uecount,