Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1879, Page 12

12 A JURYM Recollections of nn 01-Timo Expori- ence Recalled by Recent 3 Events, Hown Certain Oaso Was Contested in the Oourts of Oalifornia, T the Ediior of the New Terk Graphte, , The case of the poor man who went mad the other day over in Jorsey while on thic 8mith- Bennett jury has wrought on me to that extent that I feel moved to arise and say a word of my experience as a Juryman. No-ons as yet fn this ago of many philanthropies has taken any action towards the relict of these poor, persecutod creatures, Be- cause, in the first place, nine jurymen out of ten loso all track of a case after tho second doy's ovidence, Whatover they do know nt the commencement is often completely bemuddled, befogeed, and twlsted into a snarl by the law- yers. I presume the poor man on the trial in questlon was consclentious and tried to re. member the evidenco, This was too mueli, and broko his braln down. Most jurors are not con- gclentious. They grive up the ship after the firat. two hours of evidence-hearing and let the case drift, All jurors know this to bo true, but no man likes to acknowledge it. 8o they look wise {u their chalrs, and the farce goes on from year to year. In 1861, at the commencement of the War, 1 seryed my country as a juror in the GREAT TABLE MOUNTAIN TUNNEL CASH at Sonora, Tuolumue County, Cal, It was Table Mountain Tunncl va. New York Tunnel, ‘Tho- opposing clalms had drifted into opposite sides of the great mountaln, which here de- scribed a semiclrcle. Table Mountain Isa wall forty miles long, from 200 to 800 feot fn length, about 800 yards wide, and with atop as lovel a8 a barn floor, Bides, top, and bottom are of rock, and o the midalo 13 a_coro of gold-bearing gravel, In some claima the tunnels bored throug the “run rock ' arc 1,400 feet ju length and cost years of labor. The top rock Is valcanic and spongy in aopearance. ‘The bottom is & bard blue granite, ‘worn smooth by the rush of a current, for at some porfod 1t was the bed of a river. If the Palisades could be finishod on the Jersey side and then pleked up and sot down in ‘some comparatively level country farther inland, the: would give a falr representationof Table .\loung i, Tuolumne County. When the New Yorl and Table Mountaln Companics first took up their claims they sup- posed, as every one clse dig, that the pay streak followed the mountain, So it did everywhere clse, but in this particulsr coze it shot stralght across a wmall flat part- 1y Inclosed by the mountaln wall, The two companics, asSthey followed the lead from either end of' a horse-shoe curve, found themsclves tunneling towarda each other and into this hitherto suoposed worthicss flnt. The farther they tunneled the richer mrew the streak of “pay dirt, Every rod held a small fortune, Of course both parifes claimed it. Both dlscovered that for years they lind Xkoown of the richness of Humbug Flat. " Both wanted the entire flat. The luw was calied upon to settlo the difliculty. The law was glad, So- nora, the county town, was then full of lawyers, 'The msln strect, three-quariors of a mife in length, alternated thus—store, satoon, law- office, law-offlce, store, saloon, store, law-office. The Bonora Jawyers ran their tunnels into both of these claims, and never stopped uotil they had exhiauated the cream of the pay-streal. ‘The opposiug miners did the work, und THE LAWYERS TOOK TIlE FEES, Year after year the Table Mountain ve, New York Tunncl case came into court, It com- menced in the County Court, ron into the Dis- trict Court, woa scnt ‘up to the Bupreme Court and the last decision set asfde. Then the Dis- trict Court would take anotlier shy atit, give Judgment for one slde or thy other, and away it would goto the Supreme Court ngaln, como back with some new kioks fn the legal tiist, nud carom again on the District Court, So the case went on year ofter vear, with judgments ren- dered first for one side then for the other, (hen appealed, then Supremo Courted, then sent back that District d, untl ac last it had become €0 incumbere ith legal barnacles, porasites, eobwebs, mold, ullidavits, rullugs, dry rot ami counter rulln;iu thut nobody but the lawyers knew or pretonded to Inow aught of the matter. As for the contending miners, they simply worked, got out their dust, brought it to Bonora, an paid their attorneys, ‘There were about thirty men {n each company, and the lawyers had these men well tralned nnd wader thorough con- trol. They were perfectly content to work so Jong as the cnso went on.: The caso went on, und the seml-annual trial of ‘I'nblo Motutain ¥, Now York Tuonel Compans made more ex- citement, drinking, cutting, shoating, and lort more money in Sonora than any Fourth of July celebration, 'Iic companies brought with them at each trinl an average of thirly witnesses cach, These and the slxty contestants filled the hotels and the - saloons for five or six dnys, Monte, faro, keno, aund poker fired u[: anew durine tho _trials of the Table Mountaln va, Noew York Compantes, It was A NEGULAR CELEDRATION, The town prospered. Thepopulatlon fncrenscid, They mado of Bonora & clty with o Common Councll, vought a fire-engine, " and bullt three new churches. The caso beeame a county Insti- tutlon, 1t outlived threo acts of Judges, It grow dropsieal with sflldavits and documuntary evidence. Men died anct with thelr Jast breath Tett sume word stlll farther to comulicate, con- fuse, and perpetuate the greot Tuble Mountain lawsult. As fast as witnesscs perished the re- serves were brought fu to flll the vacancles, nnd thesa could swear to anything, snd so flll up all the caps in their respeciive chains of evidence, But at Jast jurors competent for trying this cago becamo very scarce. Nearly evershody )lvlnt,' within fifteen mlles of Sonorn had “ent an it,” and was, thereforo; focompetent to ait on itogain. But the lawyors, ns well ns tha sesldent population of thic county town, did not pronoga to lot the casu die for fack of jurors g0 long o8 there was any dust lofe in the py- streak worked by the parties in Table Mountata, Bo the Blierlft aid his deputies were sent to the more distaut mountains and pulehies of Tou- Jumnoe for wild, untrained and unbroken Jurors possessed of the neceasary fgnorance, lin this way they found me, at thut tlme dead nnd burled to the outside world, on Bwett’s Bar, u xelmow corner of the county, was BUMMONED 48 A junton, £ obeyed the sutnmons, borrowed a coat, and went to Bonora, 'The great day vame, the town was full us usual of contestunts und witnesses, the saloons throve, gold clinked, nwl few went to bed thut night, Tu the mornfug 1, with the remalniug cleven, was sworn to try the rasa to the best of iy abllity, No Iewore, I felt wvery ridlculous.” I felt guflty; I kuew I had no abllity as o juror. I thought then that ublliry ©f 80me gort Was necessary, ‘The case was callud, * It scemed to mo they commenced fn the middle or ut somo poiut of leaving oft n somo provious trlul, 1 couldu't zet avy clear dea which wus plalntiff nod whiel defendant, It is doubtful thut I understoud the exact meaning of those terms at that time, The Judge was noted for his emturance 19 o sitter. Ile snt twelve hours per y, Twenty-flye witnesses on ony sfle testified to something; thirty-five on the other swore it all down again, Tho trial lasted tive days, Thu opposing couusel, the rival claiy ant, and even tho witnesscs, hadjlong, gaudily sulured mapa of the clulms, which they unrolledl, Bield before us, und swung deflantly at ea other, "The tirst two days of testimuiy, Iny iz certuln uncient minlng laws and ancidnt boundarics from 1850 up to 1834, wero, when concluded, thrown out as irrelevant to the case, But how could it bo throwpn out of my head? It temained therey nud interfered with all tho re- tuining testiniony, I hud only oo singlo fuct Hxed In my wewory, It wasa certaln Jarge lue {lln: iuitial boundary poiut for both clams, ALL I EVEL KNEW OF THE CASR. When Jost and contused tn mazes of contras detory evidence, [would mentally cote bhack L0 the ebade of this tree und rest awhilo befury sitempting aunother start,” But for that tree I ilink I edould huve gone mad, Becuuso belyg consclentious and simple then, 1deemed it my duty asu good cltlzen to try and lullow thu case as, It was chased and huuted from one Abicket of legal complexity to wnotlier by the Iswyers, I thought i my fnnoceucs thut they were trylng to_mwake it cuslly uuderstoud. @1t seemed to e, L remarked ‘ono doy during the triul to Bob G, the County Clerk, *thut I could put this matter o great deal clearer than did Lawyer G, inun hour's talk over lfs ob- Jection ubout somethiug," ** Clear, you {diot,” suld ke, “do you sup. posa tho lawyers want to make auythlng clear 1 this casc '’ Yhis was the frst bint 1 over re- ceived that lawyers did not wish to make things cicar, But 1 did not bellove the elerk then, deemed Lim o promulyator of yeckless statc- wout and opinun. The sununing up lasted n:nrly two duwys, T kept truck of opposing counsel’s specchie s for ffteen minutes, Then Igave it -up und took shelter under the big pine tree. Wo were fiual- 1y cuarged by the Judge and scab 10 the jurys room, I cxpeeted something from that charge to clear my montal aky, but was disappainted. Judge Creamer turned fowanls us in a friendly, confidentiat” manner which prom- ised o great deal nnd safd that it from the nature of the evidence . e deemed the ground In dispute belonged to the plalotiff, wo should give a verdict in his favor; but if, on the contrary, we deemed from the naturoof the evidence thut it belonged ta the" «lelemlnnl‘ e must return a verdict for the defendant.” Wetl, I knew all this be- fure, 1 think the rest of the jury did. He would bave dona ma more aervive' by informing me WIIIGH WAS THE PLAINTIPE. Al this mny scem vory improbabla In thess days of lepal “perspicuity and directness; but if Fou had sudaenly been snatehed from years of retirement (n a mining guleh, whero o single ]mlr of broadeloth pants did duty for every in- habltant in his infrequent visits to town, or when sent up as delegate to a Connty Conven- tion, would vou, i nnddanl{ ,{nekcd up and slung |ntonhuw’lu vortex of ‘law, have been quite clear as to plafntilT and defendant? Iwent with the rest tnto the jury-room. I feit liko a fool, an tdiot, und & criminal, [ knew 1 hadn't the shadow of au opinion or a conclu- slon fn the matter. 1 took my condfutors all for wise nnd capable furors. I dreaded the moment whon 1 should be odliged to roveal my uster ix- norance nnd fncapacity as a juror. It never came, It began soon to dawn upou me that three-fourths of my companlons wers no wiser than myaclf. I was relicvod, Ignorance loves company, Soscon as the door was locked on us there was silence, and that pecullor silonce which argues that eversbody was walting for somebody elsg to speak tirst. There were no chafrs or benches, It heips jurors to perspleut- ty ahd hostens verdicta to mako jury-rooms ns uncomfortablo as possible. Jonoh first broke the Ice. He captared’su old blanket Ivingon the floor, wrapped himself up fn it, laid down, nnd said, "unnummn‘whcn you've mude up our verdiet call me.” Jonah was a voteran iur 'man, He was nlso a gambicr, He 18 now n the Callfornia 8tate Prison for stago robbery, Then wo opened our miuds to each other, and CONYESSED OUR COMMON DEWILDERMENT, But we had two capable jurymen. They pro- fessod to understand the casé. ‘They took op- posing sides. They imported into the jury- room the antagonistic harangues of the lawyers, Wo didn’t know what to do, s0 wo cradually took sldes twith -the two leaders. Mcantime Jouah slept peacefuily, Weaereed to aisagree. ‘We eent out word to that effect. Tt waa Satur- day pight. Judge Cresmer sent back notice that we nust agree or stay out over Sunday. Bome time'in the morning tho last man was convinced, Jonah was awakened, and we agreed and wero let out. Somora at that hour was stlll aglow with 1ights nud Jively with the rottle of the kono box. I don't reniember whether the verdiet was for plaintiff or defoudant, It mattered not. Both claims were then paying woll, andl everybody knew that, in any event, the case would go'to the Supreme Court, aa it dld, The llfe of Sonorn waa juvolved fn the per- petuntfon of the preat case. Somora then showed the surprised stranger, expecting tosce only backwoods groggeries, Turkey carpeted saloons, hung with great mirrors, fancy glass- ware bearlngs the proprictor’s namo, and freo lunches worthy of Lucullus. This was in 1860. ‘The Table Mountain sult and clalms continued to pay the lawyers and sustalued the mountain town until 1807, Then the pay streak dimin- fsbed and the case stopped. Most of tho law- yers moved to Ban Francisco, Sscramento, or Btocktou, The population mpldl{ decreased. Fathers commenced telling their boys that 8o- nora was now NO LONGER A GOOD PLACE for an enterprising Joung man, ‘They had bet- ter go—* Go West,” thoy would almaat remark and they atop, rememborlng that the next Western™ territory was China, whese peo- ple were raplaly coming Enat. When I last saw Sonorn, ' fn 1871, they had ripped up the saloon Turkey carpets, the cle- gant pler glasses were goue, nnd nothing of the sumptuous free lunches remnined save hard crackers. The city was disincorporated, und the three churches staod empty. The Table Moun- tain case had stopped. Two ol the churches had been sold for taxes (California law not ex- empting church property), and Ned Rogers, the only live lnwycr left, having * bought them in," offéred to sell mo u church cheap, Idid not want a whola church, ‘I'his Is my jury cxnerience, I gather from it thut juries In'such Jone complicated cases are Inhuman ordeals for cltizens. Were 1 drafted as juror In uny case likely to involve over two hotirs of evidence und & half on bour of sum- ming up, { shonld plead unfitness on the score of Incapacity for legal comprehension. It's no wonder thal mon go nrnz{ an juries, PruRTICE MOLPORD, FROM PARIS, NORTH. Leydon—Amsterdam, Some ten miles north-northeeast ef Tle Hague, and but a fow miles from the mouth of the Ruine, lies this anclent, famous, University Clty of Legiden. Gathierlng up this old rivor as it sluggishly moves toward the sea, these burgh- crs of Loyden have diverted it to the right and Ieft by many a causl, and dike, and moat, until, having compelled it to do service for both trade and defens within thefr boundaries, they allow it to resumo its monatonous way beyond, Rich in {ta past is this Leyden, but without pronilss of growth in these days of the commerciul stim- ulus. Mother of scholars, artists, warrlors, ono finds many noted namnes among thoss who taught in her streéts: Descartes, Arminfus, Scalizer, Gomar, Grotlus, Boertinve; many an artist dréfmed first of fame within Ler walls, —Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Van Mlerls, Joris Van Bchooten smong them,—and went out boyoml those walls to find it; and the Burgomaster Van der Werfl, nnd other uonamed thousands of her sons and daughters, fought for and do- fouded her In lier berole nge, ¢+ * In the southwesterly part of the elty, and spart from its bustle and distraction, stands the veuerable University, about which ore clustered 80 many Interesting nssociations, Founded in 1675 by Willlamn the Sliont, fmmedlately after the terrible sicee by the Bpaniards, and asa recopnition of that great and successful defense, It stunda to-day the greatest seat of learning in 1lolland, s one of the most (mportant In Eu- vope. Wo entered, fu vacaton, amd drifted through the quict corridots, up the woll-worn studrease, and stood within the examination-hall itaelt, with the sncctacled eyes of every Pro- fessor of that University, from Bealiger down, starlng at us from out thelr cunvases,—there were two ladies B our party. We thought of the fntellocts that had beeo Tnukonud under fte shelteriug, fostering roof, of our Noll Gold- smith, und Flelding, und’ John Evelyn amnon, thent, and faucied the very musty air to be ille with protoplusruie poctry and fnielligence, The seml-cireulur tablo ab wileh these wenerations ol Protessors eat and grimly quostioned or “dreamily dozed; the little” nute-chamber to this Inferuo, over which sume thoughiful student, while waiting for the verdict, had written, * Lasciate ognl speras vol eh'entrate,” churs couled, ns many other devices nnd lustrations were here s there upon the bare White walls by hands now resting from hott work and play,—an cvident waivime of dls- elplins m favor of the wit aud the artist,—nll this amd much more wero absorbed by aur some- times frrevorent party, nud wo soucht the fresh aie with mory serlous tnces, Passfug; out luto the bright sunlight, we turn, with sonte relfet, toward the Botante Garden, the entrunce to whieh (s at the hoad of the court upon which the University frouts; from the flavor of inanuacripts and eall-binding to that of rosesnnd hellotropo was u plensunt change to ug, mere pleastire-seckers that we were, An fmiposing drom gate iy ul)cnml. und W piss at oncu L0 uny of the mast dettzhtiul nud qulct of rotreats, A fine vollection ol trecs und plunts 15 hore, and our gulde, the keeper of all this vegetable mag- nlticeuee, 18 Ko vasses from vne rdre shrub (o another, gives us, as I vellove prup-.-rl‘y educated gardeners Co—in_ Burope—the botanfeal uames of oll wo puuse before, The sweet, soft, por- fumed e was startled and shaken by the polysyilabic affectution of hurtleutural sclence, Tofs mon vledded on, showlng us, fu ane dend Jungeuago or ather, bis clnnauion, popyrus, mis hogany, arrowroot, banuna, coffee, quinine, bambou, ssgu, tamarind,—trees und shrubs,— with the grase alr aud eneyclopiwdie aceuravy of ninuster; us ho undoubtedly was, In his work, though clad in the elmply fustian of the Jaborer; yet, with a galluitey and courtesy that were as udmirable us unexpected, be would now wd then cut off fur us somo rare rose or other flow- ery some leaf or twig thut interested us. Wo puused befure a Juree oval Ded of statks and caves. 1o vou know this plancd” ho usked, Surely, hore was o fumiliar form, with (ts dark: grean leaf, luxuriant, too, conlderlg the il « cultles of its hite,—a bed of Indian corn it was, strong enough In loaf, sud stalk, und color, but no sign of car aml tassel, though we were rather eurly In the seuson. In one of the grean-liouses, of which thero were geverul, we found o ta- ble Nllg.lotus i {ull bloow, a Victoria I , 0 nlght-bloowug coreus, o pusston-fluwer, uid many ather wondurs of " the vegetable world, all fulfitling their -lrilluy i tho “conslderate com- pany and watchful love of this inaster, Guttursl and fucomprohiensiblo as was Ils specch to us, Wo did not doubt that bis touch was soft und kind to these bis chlldren, Wo liad @ famous tramp throual old Loyded THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE TUESISAY MARCH up aid down Its narrow streots und canals, | fomo monkey, or hippopotamus, ver ils numerous brld no unimportant der, or sncred {bls, or astrich, p features of the landscapo: stopping at this and bon-canstrictor, tzard, or chumelmm. and 1hey that abject of fntérest, at its qualnt Stadthuls, | scem to hnvo hnd good Jundament as well, forno- whose graven tablct speaks to ita wpeople a8 they pass of the herolam of thetr aneestors, and, In Hebraie form, of * their God, the Lord 5 at its mureurm, contaming a valunblo colleetion of antiquities, maivly flindu and Eayotian; here we fouud a curlous earved stono from Car- thage, upon whidrias plalnly ratsed the Manx arms, If one tan a® call the well-known three Tegs of that primitive little {aland, Doubtivas our vencrable guide hero could have ratisface torily explained e wuuucuoni hut his English 1 the soclation, and glory of the clty. heroes, and here were they recelved was quite ns tedious as our Dutch, and there | and ita artlats contributed to its elory, il wns no common ground in this caso to stand uellyn is represented In Iis seulpture and ol upon. The “Burg " {s an old Roman fort, in un der Helst,Jordacns,and De Wit are present the very centre ot the clty, n large, round, brick structure, one or two thousand years old, very much *“restored,” that was doubtless of some value when {6 was Lullt, but owlng to the degeneracy of the tlmes, and the deerease In jncomes, §t 1s now used as a kind of beer-garden, to which n hotel s attached, and the whole dovoted, I suspeet, to the somewhat Laso use of money-getting,. A little imitation ot the Venctlan Rinlto {8 near this, and the grain merchants gather there in usual “Open- Board? furin, i “The church interfors of these Protestant Iol- lnnders are very simple; the grandeur Is in co structlon, in form, not In ornament; ihe mas- sive arches and pillara, with licre sl there o Ilttle stained wlass, arc all thet arglett of the sensuous pald, und purple, and fine linon of the Mothor Chiurch we loft bohind us in France and Tielgium ; thera Is & certaln chilliness o the con- trast, and we nlmost wished this sinplicity wera a triflo lesa severe, and the plain, white walla s trifle warier. But we must teave Leyden, with all §La attrac- tlovs, for our hollday bcflnn to wang, and Am- sterdam should be scen In its sunlight. So we Ieave the gold-fish aud the refreshment-tables of the charming restaurant by the station, book our Inggaee, and take cxpress for thint city of commerce and art, but two hours away. ‘ITiere are no distances in Holland, AMSTERDAM 1a the brightest, must modern, and nincteenth- century-like of the cotnmercfal citiea of Hol- land. “A city of Industry and art; fta people clearly of that mnphiblous race a fow flshermen of which, 700 years ago, gathered themselyes under the protection of the feudal Lord of the Amste), aud packed, and coaxed, und baked this ooze of the Zulder Zeo lnto n surface of con- slstency suflicient to bear thelr liile huts, and began at oncs thelr dam bulliling and canal dig- in color, - Tihils palace coutalns ano of the most. beautiful halls in Europe, called the ball-room, hights the wall chandellers and pendants, its mgfiy of constraction and finfsh, he and it has some {nteresting monuments; elder brother of this church, called the O memory of old Admiral Van Heemskerk, who, Indles by the Polar Bea. collected In he many ealleries of Amsterdam would bo usel 88 in tliese Hinits, be scen iu their rich and qualnt perfection, At perfection, in Antwerp the glory of Rubens fs somewhat too dazzling, but In Amsterdam we find n gathering of masters, and at their best, upon which we rest with the fullest satisfaction. the neighboring placesnbont, By thieTf, and the drunken condition; and you can peer into the dark hole fu the wall fn ‘which hie slept, and bo sure he didn’t take bls greatness to bed with htis watch dreamity the coloseal arms of its hundred wind-mllts, s they move with giant force i the fresh breeze, or e fdly still in the resting calm. Or, a littlo farther on, to Edam, mado and named after—und which e aro told ull:‘g. Sufih n‘fxnnl{s. ntliunlllng {nfancy cnluld Z?{"'l"l::g ‘:;:fi. ';‘mn‘.‘;’}fx‘l‘.f{l""‘b"ukem&‘é’: not resul otherwiso lan in an aggressive, vl ” P strong, and thrifty manliood, and theso beavers | D8 with ©golid strength the Zulder Zeo, and across the Orange locks to Schielllng- woude, wlmrc{nu can drink nglass of cool, fres| milk and Jook back on the city, with Its {rregu- Inr eky-ine, fts quaint_gables, and tower(ng spires, Or eall out to tho littlo fslund of Marken, 1o see a commuulty priinitive and curlous even amonte North Hollwnders; a fishing community, of from 800 to 1,600 persons, the wen of which put out to sea on Sunday nfternoon, and the women wateh and walt till thelr return on the next Saturdny evening, and_the nnchovies they gather fn support them. These people have acurfous treatment of children's hends, malo and female; they bandago and compress them to shape them in one wold, and two long curls, one ot _cach slde, uro the only halr visible, by mght or day; very * trying * this to most fnces. ‘The boys, howaver, cut loaso from this bondage at about 14 years of age, but the girls retain this cunrmlng licad compreas until thelr halr falls aut, ns it casily docs, and what was o childhood a luxury becowmes in carly womanhood o neces- nlt.f'. for the glory (according to Solomon, I beltevo) of the wuman has departed. Oto should not leaye Amsterdam without o run to Hnarlem,—renowned for many virtues and many rolbl It defended ftaelf gallantly for soven mouths sgainst tho Spanlard; ita women, with o woman leader, Kennu 8imons Hlassclaar, vied with {ts men in that fanious re- sistance. 1t algo, in a mors luxurlous day, led the vanin the pursuit of bortlculture, uud bought and sold tulfp-bulbs with an equal acorn of the enemy. But our vislt to Maarlem was projected primarlly to _hear its famous orean, and wo did hear I, and npplauded sllently its master, anent which and whom the following: 1t eamea to pass that the old organtst died, leay- Ing his love and his fame to his son, who as child and youth atl young man had eat in the dusty loft, day after” day, year after year,—sat beside this Joving father and his lovéd nstru- ment until it beeame u‘)mrc of his own 1ife, as 1t wus of his father's, Well, Haarlem must have the best organist for this best organ, and no- tlces wore sent abrond of the yacancy, and that n trin) wouid be offored to all, of competent grade, who chose to apply, The day came, and the sultors, and the Jury, and of the many mnsters {n those days of trial, it proved that the old master’s son was tho cholce over all, and it was hu who played for ys that high noon, and of the Amstel havo in thelr day dictated policics to Btates, have mnore than once made their cousins of England—sea-dogs themsclves— tremble for thelr country aud thefr homes; baye founded schools of art, of sclence, and of philosophy, and now, m:nhhy and comfort- able in thelr age, areliving fu srrene contempla- tlon of the activity and glory of thelr middle lfe. Nothing hereabouts tenids to romance; Amsterdam “has bad noets, one at lenst, Vondel, and gome practical land speculators have laid out a beautlful park in his name, und haye fronted their bullding lots upon {t, una prospered, much as our own opecrators have done, mil, let us hope, will acaln, Here Bnruch 8pinozs was born, and leed his carly lifo, and dreamed out his philosophy ;. with Mttle else than sky nnd water to give color and tone to that young inind, no wonder the glotious woods and green flelds and hills of the higher country ho ocearfonally visited were to him flil. ed with the very life,~nay, wero the great Creator Himself. But while Spinoza philosophized, Amsterdam traflicked und Ient money to rulers, and sent itg white-hulled East Indiamen out to zather car- oes, and bullded its quaint warchouses to store this wenlth of the Indics; and theso atlll creak, and groan, and lean against each other for sup- port under their fragrant burdens; shoulder to shoulder, 0s it were, theso narrow, six and séven storled warchouses stand, with gabled roofs, and the beamn and pulley out [rom each topmost. window, A curious gulet scems to pervade these store districts; ono looks for and misses the mofse, -mnd bustle, and confusion of the warchouses of the Thomes and the Mersey; but the seventy or elghty canals of Amsterdain have reduced the audiblo voice of traflic to {ts minimum, and I cannot but belfevo that these water-ways of Holland have helped greatly to produco the smootl, quict mothods of 1ts veople. Cowpared wits the clevation of Amsterdam, the loention of Chicazo fs a bold, clovated plateau. The mud of Amsterdam’s canals has butle its streets und nllo{n, and Belgium and Gertnuny have furnlshied the stones of its pave- ments, as well o8 the facings ot the hundreds of miles of dikes that proteet Uolland from the Zulder Zeo and the German Ocean, Amaterdan itscll 18 samo elzhit or ten feet lower than the ? Zatder o uml ts flects of vossels nro nade us forget for tho hour our homo and our “locked" down Lo their docks and up to ea | MtHCRGNde 468 again by a fine system of locks, governlng every water approach,” Yeu fn this city of Amaterdam CHICAGO SEWERS. fully one-tenth of fts 800,000 people live nuder- groiud, fn its cellars, which are for the most Shall the Evil Bo Pormitted to Grow Until part, thoroughly cemented, but yet tevitably damp, and, one must helleve, dangorous to hentth; ‘The euriousty large proportion of de- formed per<ons seen here [s attributavle to this cause mainly, sl [featuro of Postllonce Overtnkes Us? To the Hditor of 'Tlic Tvibune, Ci110A60, March 10.~The human mind trav- cls for the most part In the grooves it has formed by hablit, not heeding the danger ahead until the incvitablo eatastrovlie, 1kko an Ashta- buln disaster, inn merclicss manner punishes for the neglect. Very few well-Informed peopls deny tho advantapes of the metric ayatem for welzht and measure, nor the desfrablencas of phonotle spelling, and yet the uverage tnind clings to the old with a tenacity that would bo herole wera it not expended on mistaken {deas, Inmy letter to Tuz TrintNn of Feb, 28 I pointed out the ovils attending the Chlcago Rewayee, cltier fn foreluyg It out Intothe lake, aud thus poison the water-supply, or down the cannl and Illinols River, whereby wo do harm to our nefghbors, and suggested that the sewage should be transferred to the prairles, deodor- Ized, nud used ns fertilizers, ‘Ihat the Chleago Rlver should lave been made u receptacle for ite drainaze just in the heart of the city lan wost deplorable state of affaivs, Most of our gaodl citizens hava at tines upproached or crossed the river branches with aversion, suppressed breath, and with a note of futerrogation in thelr faces—Why shall we suffer this ubomination? And this canuot be remedied by pumpligg part of the nuisance into the lake, the pet §s grow tngs too Iarge for being drowned, nnd the evils attendlyg patlution of ‘thoe water- supply aro too great for belng trified with by cxperlments, Thero 18 punlshment for thoso whe willfully take or endunger the lte of their follow-belus, and , still wholesale murder by nolsontng air ad “wator are not only practiceil unarrested, but sanctioned by the Governmont, who tux the people for its accomplishinent. If munkind thoroughly undoratood the laws ol nature, und ubways ucted tn contormity there- to, 1 have no doubt that sickness and disesso would be rare oxceotions; man would then live to n tood old uge, and then, lke the old tree, full fu calin weather. Clvilization, In its cager- ness for comflort, has often overlooked defects in the nrrangemcnts, often because fenorant of thu consequonces that must follow, aiul at other times seduced by the luve of galn, until human- ity sutlers ull kinds of ailments und discase, contracted in couswming adulterated food ns well us from breathig poliuted air or deinking volsunous water, In olnost overy case of typhold or scarlet fever the cause may bo fuund inthe dmperfeet dwellings there may Lo a leak of sewer-gas dmpercoptiblo to the senses, und Jot strong enougth to sever the threud of life on the more susceptible, It bus been, and to a great extent - I3, the practlee o the ullding business to ahut oft the smoll from the drajus ju dwelllngs with & water-trap only, without even wn wseape-pipe, and when heavy raing 1l the sewer, or wind It pressing therein, the sewer-gas {8 forced into the very sieeplng chambers, s thus the fnnocent are " sulloring wid dfo throueh iguorauce, noglect, or false ceonomy. A fuw days ago the Cowmon Councll yoted an approprintion of #250,000, beside some unex- vended bulanes from previous years, for the construction of new sewers. 1 am pglad to notive the patriotie zeal and good Intentions ont its purt, but befors taxing the people with an expendlturs of more tian o quarter of a mill- fon it would be woll it our roud City Fathers would examing the project well, und it e money §s spent for permanent good no loyal tax- paver will complaln; bat I bellove thut they ull will emphatically proteat ogainst any ex- penditure for abolisiing a nulsauce in such a munner that it i3 sure to return i worso forus, wnore diftfeuit to combat, Notu dollar shoul be wausted on the system of turning the sewoers either into Chieao River or Lako Michlzan: Bych systema hava beon trled i most citles of importance, und for those situated on or neur the ocean const, whero the tlood and tide causes a Jargo chango of the water, it may Lo used with mmuumlvcl{-lmlu detriment fu regard to the sanitury condition® of thoe plucoj but or in- lundd towns, where used, It bus been o growing sourco uf dlstasv, attended with more curses on the human fumily than perbaps any other mod- ern invontion, i Many peoplo ave long been cognizant of the ovil that threatend us with extormlnation, und varlous methods kave been devised ns rensedics, of which I will wcution & few which seew oill- clent, 1u DBerlin, Pruasis, tio sewayzo 13 putoped out on what used to _be @ sandy desert, which bas been trausformed fute a fertilo mesdow, 1n Gothenburg, Sweden, o, fertilizing company ? takes good care of al} mulsuuces, ltme beivg msterdam Nfo fs the uni- al use ut tob; here Is bardly any ar- ticle of comancerce so cheap ns this,—bolns ‘duty tree,—and vue gees continually children of § or 9 years und wpwurd smoklng” cheap chrars, say 0 cents per 100, and these pale, tmhicalthy-ap- vearing weaifs, poorly fed and voorly housed, are permitted by publlc upinfon to thus destroy thewmselves, The chlldren of the better clnsdes, being beiter fed, have hetter tasta or are hotter governed, ‘This 13 no poor man's parudise; common lahor {8 worth from elzht to twelye gulders per week, n gulder being abont 40 vents; 80, with beef at. 85 cents und venl 40 cents per pound, simull eggs nt two cents and larger ot four cents cucl, nnd 80 on, one ean sce that the Inburer can hinve o meat dinner once say In Lo weeks, Il he be very thrlty, Among the sights ot Amaterdamn fs the Jewlsh quurter, throueh which we drove one pleasant afternoon, 'The miserable shiope, the windows of the hizh houscs, tha cellurs, nay, the very uarrow streets themeelves, of which literally swrarined with o chuttering, trading, uninvitiug vitality, Turoush this mass of wen, women, und chilidren onr conchman trotted his lorses With an apparent recklessness that appalled us, but the continuouserowd wonld part hofora und close fn behind us with a mixture of indiffer- onee und elusticity thut was full of satisfaction ta our npprehiensive aninds. And the fsolntion uf, this race, that has fucnished Amsterdam with so many philosophers, aud urtists, nmd skilled artisuns,~the diamond-cutting and pol- ishing of the world was done hero for centuries, th celebrated Kolinoor was cut (and budly ent) here,—this {solution remaine ns perfect to-dny ulmost 85 when they flocked hither over 260 years ugo from Lortugul, Bpaln, and_Germany to flud freedom to ve al 1o work. This searce £atlon scems to bu the result here of many causea; tradition, hablt, projudice and religion euter, it I8 trug, but one may bellove that the most fmportunt dillerenco between the Amster- dam Jew of the “quarter” amd his brothren outshde it {3 the coutlict between dirt nud cleane Huese, which i3 radical und also frrepressible, One of the most charactoristic features of Holtund scenery s the ever present, slugerish, low-hanked canal, and a stroll nlong the charm- Jug Ketzers und Heereo grachten wiil well ropay the visitor, ‘Thess can=ls ure the most, celebrat- ed for their beauty, betng obont 160 feet wide, and planted on each alde with trees, malnly clms; the houses thau front them are high, and for the most part of thut Holland regularit; und composure wo were rapldly learning to ad- mire, No trout dooryards, but graperics wnd tavere grass-plats and fower-beda md shirubbery fu the rear, Wo foilind one of these privatu louking houses by Its number,—for there was no sign to pulde v aml descending 1o the basument, Tolluwing o servant who hud unswered our ring, we groped our way up a narrow wind- Ing stair, throuzh o durk liallway, nud fnto o durk ante-chanbor, the other door of which leads into a bl thut counta its miltione, o unostentationsly do thess solyent bankers work, ut on the most northern point of land In old Amsterdam, with utlook on the If aud otf toward the Zader Zoe, vises from tho” tlat sur- tuce u eurious old tower, that has stood now four hundred yeurs sentinel aud fund-mark up- on the wharl whenee salled tnose white-hubled East Indlamen and otlier long-winded craft, for distant scas, Probably from this very polut Hendrlle lindson und *the little colony that settled Now Awsterdam welghed anelior and sed soll for that then terribly distust haven, Here gathered fu the'old time the wives und children, the tathers and mothers und friends of thozo ancient marjvers to bid themn Godspeed, snd to weep nmd sorrow at the parting; hence its puotle numos the Schretjerstoren jor Criers! Tower, which it Lenra to tils duv, Somowhut near this, und to the southward, stunds the Y Waag" or welghlng-liouse,—the city scales,— u curlous old ‘city wate with soveral round, noluted towers, {u front of which, also, In the yluod old tline, tho whinplug post threatened, the stake burned wd the eaidron bolted for the subjuuation, (v unc form ar anothur, of the une recunting heretle. 1tds now occupled ns o flres enzine house. So wo all move, But this fetter apius out to unconselonahla ength, s 1 must merely refor to a few of the wany other objects of Interest, Chief among theeo ts the Zoologleal Gardous, lupgun.cu by private subseription, 1 belisve, uud public airit, hera has always existed o pencrous rivalry nmong the uerchant princes of the elty to add to tts magniticent collestion of birds and anl- muts, nid ouch shiip-master b fustructed, for the ?' of his housy, to bring buck from alstant M woe uew or rare specics of aulwal lifo, Whero havo I seen ao rate and valnable n collos tlon a8 fn this samo ** Artls," aa 1t 14 called, save {mrlmm In tho fIyde Park (lardens in Londan, ) publie bulldings of Amstenlam, the Lalaco {8 tho richest in_construction and as- Built about 1650 as ' Stadthuls or City-Hnll, it continually represented the wealth Ience departed lt: and honored; bore were gathered its governors and councllors, ita judges and bankers; its poots' 120 feet in lemzlth by b7 In wiatt, and 00 feet in 8 aro faced with white 1tallan marble, highly polished ; its decoration, its elass | mirrors and sculptured colmne, are of an elezant tichness, and the whole presents a raro and felicltous hars Niewe Keek, built about 1400, the Waat- miuvster Abboy of Amsterdam, Is well worth a visit, Ilero the Kings of 1follund are erowned, an ude Kerk, about n_century earller, keeps green the in the’lntter part of the seventeenth century, twice easayed that absurd short-cut to the Enst ‘Lo enter upon any onumeration of the art 1am suro that only here are the Duteh and Flemish schools to Brusscls we find the scveral steps toward this : One can spend mang days pleasnntly in visiting cheapest of stoambont farcs, to Znandam, where Pater the Great’s houee still stands, in rather a where the small, rouud, red-painted cheeses ars unctl as n acodorizer, and 80 successful are the operations thut offansive. smell 18 noticed even in (he . sheds shere it 18 mixed and atored, ‘Ihe contpound Is highly valued by tha farmers, towhort it 18 sold liy eargo or carload at re. munerdtivo prices, London—in this world of ftacif therc I8 out of the row- age not ouly ' .produced ferilllzers, but also extracted olfsnud grenso. Porisfs, berhaps, in this respect inferior to no other Dlace o the arranzement of its cloncas; but imagine what it would be swere their conlonts poured Into the Ecine, Full descriptions of ‘theso systems and thelr workings would fill yolumes, and conld not be aitempted In the limited space whlih {lun may grant me In your columus, nor do £ think it necessary for the sake of argument, But I carnestly commend this sublect of changlng our sewer sgatewn to the conslderation of the people, 1t will cost less to do ko nowy thati ten or twenty years ' hence; and had {t been etarted {n that “djrection fen or twent; years ago mauy millions of dollars would avo been saved, Tt wil) not do for Chiesgo to shirk fts task,—the bull, and n dangerous ono it is, must be taken by the horna. Pour 1o moro nulsances luto the river or the lake, for 110 community gan alford to 4farégard the faws of nature, and puiter under tho pun- ishment that is surc to Joliow, But when the gewage Is used for entiching the sofl, making agriculture more proficable, then wo shall nlso cnjoy a mora halthy afmosohere, with nn smell fram the river, no complalning und suffering cltizons alonz tho canal, and no danger of pes- titence, sickness, and death from contaminated water-supply. 1 L. G, HavLLosno, THE CHINESE QUESTION. Views of Wong Chlffoo, » Benlghtod Hea- . then, To the Editoraf The Tribune. Cmioaao, March O/~In all her heathenism Chinn bas in no time surpassea the Christians in thelr persccution’of races. We persccute people on account of thelr lawless conduct, and mever on nccount ot tliefr nature or birth, The Chinamen hero ara persccuted for no other rea- sonn than becauss they aro Chinamen. Forzet- ting the most noblo cfforts of your own {llus- trious ancestors for thelr creation of so grand und humano a Constitution, under whose pro- teeiing arms the Americans themselves have grown, but, alasi—grown, grown up te bo tyrants,—cnemics to thelr llustrious dead! If the Christlans, who clalm to b the most enlightened, the most constderate and humane of all peoples, cannot themselves be con- formed to abldo by the conditions and Inws that they demand others to do by them, we do not, know what right they have to chastise tho hea- thens, This s not only unchristianlike, but it is an outrage on the principles of bonor and a lack of trito manhood. This is consldered unmanly aven amongst the heathens, It is o matter of very little Interest to the general public of China whother your ports aro forever closcd against them or nat, for {n efther coso it uffeets but a very small portfon of the Fmpire,—n_very small gortion indeed,~a por- tion of the Empiro that docs not roperly be- long to Chlna, but belonged to England as a portaga of war, Iam not mistaken, at the vresent writing thero are but two Chinamon (or a dozen at the moat) Io the whole United States that properly belong .to the Chiness Empire. Most ail the Chinamen in the United Stotes are from Hong Koo, or near_that port, within 100 square miles about Hong Kong, which has been an English domain for the past flfteen .years. To show you further it docs not concern’or al- fect In the leaat the public of China whether tho bill against Obfoese hinmigration pass or not, I will statc that for five long years a terri- ble fumine bas existed In the northern orovinces of the great Lmpire, when nearly 10,000,000 of its ‘population werc actually starved to death, They would rather theu prefer to cat thelr owa children than-to cmigrate to any country foreign to their own. I may salely say thal amidst ol that torrife sufforing amongst nearly 100,000,000 of souls thcro nns not been onu Chifuaman lunded upon the shores of America Irom that quartor or uny other place of China excopt Honug Kong,—the British domaln. The. writer s 8 native of thess unfortunnte territories himsell. Came here, however, be- fore the great faniue begon, and if there was an arrival from those northern provinces would have been informed, und would go sco him within the United States. The language of these Chinomen now o America 1 cannot un- derstand, neither can they understaud mine, and therefore cannot keep thelr company. -Whatsocyer i the Ienlln,: of the northern Chlnamen fn regard to leay ‘fi thefr own coun- try is likewiso the fecling of the othes provinces, except that spot of the country In the imme- diato nelghborhood of the Britlsh possessions, where competition 1s 80 great that they had to seek now quarters for a lvlng, Even if thero §s such a thing as the possibil. ity ot brln;;hf five orsix hundred millions of Chinamen to Ameriean shores, have they not the samo right to como hcro as men from other nations? 1Is not this the country that boasted of fta free and liberal [nstitutions,—the land of the oppressed and the humeof theunfortunase, And yob we donot ses why we have any less right In your country than vou bave in ours, when wa Liranu you all the rlghts, und oyen al low you libertles which are denled to our own eltizeus. Your subjects in Chiny detnand us to fulilll the Burllngame Treaty to the very letter in avery particulur., We have cxpected o grent a nation und 80 good a people lke the Ameri- caus would deal with us accoraingly, or at least fulrly. A Chinoman cannat have the Flnuurn of lundlng upon fres American goll until he first Luya the privilegze by paylug the Christians $10, when all other emigrants can do so free. Then he 18 nlmost dally grected on tho strects by stonca or brickbats, or fusults by the moro clo- quent, and especivlly from thélr well-behaved, éhrlsllml-lllm children, and grown-up people, fathers und mothers, look uvoen their actions with evident satisfactton. 1t makes some dlffor- eoce ns Lo who {g {nsalted. Mr, Senator Blaiue und men of his ik have Ton niso driven us to the walls, und yet they still push. They remind us something nbout a blind man thut was leading another bi{nd man, I deny all your cuarges agalust the Chiveso, They noro "utterly false, mean, and con- temptible—too, bnsa for a man of your ex“mrl- ence to utter. There have been “hundreds of charges agalnst the Chinaman which I bave no time now to deny. [ the Chluamen take away your moncy, don't the Americans tako away Chbina's money atsol 1 tell you what fs afact. The not earne Ings of one Amorican fu China fu onc year is moro than cqual to the net earnlngs of 100 Chinamon in America for thrice tlie number of yeare, ‘Thirty million dolinra 16 bullfon snnually crossed the Pacitie from Chiua to Amerean shores, und yet nobody sces it, Hut thoy do ato when 100,000 Chlunmen send back thetr com- blued wealth ot 8500,000 or §1,000,00Q, Atnerican stennships and labor-saving mu- chines drove hundreds of thousands of Chincsa familles into despalr; but nobody kuows it. But they do sce tho Chinamen here bave emi- ployment, while perhaps the vative laborers wera Iylng idle, . Californfa now pays 25 per cent_moro for la- bor thun uny other plava in the, Unlon, whers there are no Chinaman at all. Sonuch for Chcap John, Aud it was maiuly owing to Cheap Johu's tidustry that these unfortunato and ungrateful luborera huve such o placo as Callforna to draw their extra 25 per tent pay. I rojolce at Lhis writhys, to learn that amon \} I3 the ereat body of politica) cowards in Washing- ton there fs“one notabld man. ‘e only eml- nont statesinnn shice the duys of Sumneér, the amne bruve solaier who fotent for the glorious Uunton, la now presorving the hounor of the Unlon thut ho helped to save, RoDB, tHayes, the Presi- dent of thes United tatbs, {3 faithful to bis post, loyul 1o his country, iud even grateful to tho memory of tho sucred dead, [le did not sign the bitl,—not beeausuho loved thie peopla Tcse, but becauss bo lovéd the Conatitutfon more, “Wong Cinneoo, 'The enighted Heathen, - — LR ein : Dogging & Royal Palr, A Copenhazen correapoudint. wrltes that on the oceasion of the doparturg of the Duke and Duchiess of Camberlund, the, Prussian Qovern- ment touk measures to have! the Duko uccoms ranled and wdtched by detective officers from hls lunding ot Lubeck thihis arrival on Austilan territory, ‘the Duke ot onde telezraphed to Londou to call upon the Government to remon- strato with the Court of Burlin nl?mlmt the in- digalty of treatlng o Prince of the Fnglish Koyal fawily and tho sfater of the Priucess of Wales ko runaway fclons. It was only in couse- tcnes of strong represcotations mads by tho -British Ambassador at Herd{n What orders wero given toullaw the Luke und Duchess to pro- coed without having a guard of police eples at- tachied Lo thelr suite. Tho incldont fllustrates the extreme uervousness.and Irritabllity of the Prussian Goveryment in all matters relating to the newly-forued matrimonlal aflfance, e % Wom Rights, Dufuty Brpress, T Dr. Jennle su..iifi'f, the new lacturer, waadis- coursing at & ljvely rate {n Ballston the other night, Whou un rose s tall gontleisn, who said bie was merrlod, and he thought for his part that women bod miany more rights than they de- seryed, ¢ Vary ‘true, sir!™ said Dr. Jeonie spitofully: * wint {€ vou ure ono of (lia rights in question’T have o doubt your wifo has ut least ong thut she would llke to get 51d of” for nuth- fug? 4 Drivet on gafd the: tall weutlemnun sententiously, sibking exhausted lnto his seat, 8olld gold box, smalle t It hanra the coat of arms of Glangay, i Juayitc hie In amalior g, ey At s hitlleh the offielal peal of e a0 10 Wit Frow Lovernow thero Is 1 fuuitsom A ZOOLOGICAL ROMANCUE, Unsotred by an Unusual Fino af Antmal Spirtta) No sweetor girl ewo ever gnn * Than Detty Marton's daoghter Sno. mtlal with tho Tegend, o Fyg s, dive With aablo faro, small, taplr walsi, e ":?'c‘g?g"”"fislrm Sl fneqeqy il And lips you'd gopher miles to taste; pinto with the inacriptions o PVIE a sl Bright, Imbent oyos, Jike tho gazollo, “Fa Gen, = Qrant, ex.p Statenof. America, Troruatitol Bheep peetly brought to bear so wal)j e Unit* Ul { Ape pretty lese, It was avowed, ness, Scattand,” um the veaple of Inver Of whom her marmot to be prond, 1 A atudramo volume of e 1it of Bhak Deer glelt T loved hor a8 my lfe, " 8 0 remembrance from tho haine of ax*Pear voet, The beautiny 1he gre, tolln thio stopy: ally Maminateg l“‘“‘p"e,]' ‘' Presented to Mrs, And vowed (o heifer for my wife. Alasl a snilor, on tho sly, ad cant on hor his wather eyo. afon of tho visit of Ges eI ON the Ho nid my love for lior wwas bosh, | Avon, Scot, o9, {H".’i‘ G.{?:rtv‘"flfilmumfi; fingfi my affection T mushruash, ‘Thermutls Emily, daughters of J, Zabetl ang ioyd sog her foatateps srcrywiers, , s Mary Whiatcloy Mson, Mayor ang yaJtmte o' setter round, this railor chap, . ' of Btratford-on-Ayon. 1 agores. Algo from Stratford-on-, tha city Ia l‘Eprouuul.‘clau nblv”{xonéym {rcwnm o wood mado of “Sakancary's treen ° Milberry The frecdom of the 'City of London Anil pointor ont npon the map Where once & pimte craiser boar Him captive to a forelgn shore, L0 'The criol Captaln far outdid ‘Tho yaks and crimes of Itobert Kid, ropresented by the ) 18 on; o oft. would whale dace with tho énp. i Hemior” Aminggenty Ol Clyof 251 Andasys by sk, ou von ke this? clty of London of ton, Ulysse, 240 of thy \What makes you atag atouny so, sagt Friday, June 17, 1877.0° 008 B. Grant oq The catamounts to something, hey't The following are <) Teen v ‘Then he would seal It with an oatn, A Inrog oot are the several nddresses; And say: ¥ You are n Inzy sloth{ ntR0 hook containg the * Aqqress 10 * 1)L starve you down, my sailor fine, U, 8. Grant from the Chamber ‘of Commeot® Untll for beef and porcupfue i Neweustle-on-Tyue. “Thod ddres ooiceol And, fairly horsa with flendish lanzhter, 8, Urant, from’ the workingmen: of 3oc™ U, {Youldmny: **Honcoforth, mind what gitute tart | Borlund hud Durtiam, Neiwesnicrs ol oribn, 10, short, tho many risks o ran 22, 1577 Address of the curnorn’lfc':‘ylxlt'(&n“ well a ma o er man. ol ‘Fhen o was wrocked end castor shore ,’_’f,‘é’.‘ifi:’n‘ Address of the corporatioy of MBI‘: While fecbly :llnglns 10 anoa, Tyena cloft'among the rocks o Ho crept, aonn shoes, and ininus ox; o And, when ho fain wonld go to bed, ~ ‘1o had to llon lcaves, instead. ——— s)flllEVl‘l‘ New Vork Times, - The King,of Zulu-lund {s :’ald to), Thon Bue would say, 3 . ave iiow Kooo0 n"'?,’ln‘lffli.':" ,x,‘]r:].;e;lr"““' «| !y nddressed a nots L0 a Britlsh oflicer "‘m‘; And straightway into teara wonld melt, Africa as follows: “Excollongy—Lirgt, ey Andaay % ilow bndger et have foli 1" misslonary;'next the Consul; oy o w18 Audsny? ' Ayorne, my st oo omt Cotywayo.”? Thia brict letter nmu.m,;;‘;{; Bpeechies and curt correspondence; w, doiibtless he delightful reading m (he:‘:d:,;“' of long hatangues at Albany aud “'““"k'@“ A weslcvq Judge, oncaupon u time, “’“ml:i' the Grund' Jury in theso words: * Gantlemey, The weather is oxtremely hots I AMmyery ofgs you know_your duty,—nerform it," Another American Judge onca ‘Intervened fn an old " e to prevont a wasto of words, 1l was ity ?' chumbers, and seelng, from the pllo of po,s i tho lawyers liunds, that o cerialn ‘cags ert Jikely to bo a 10ng one, he asked: \ynay 1t x:: Excaso thene stec; . ‘Tiere's naught like griof the hart can cow Jackasn'd her to ba hls, and sho— 8be gave Jackul, and Jiltea me, Aud o, l‘l"lll" lll:lullllfilo min} ] 8 bound to blm wi ymen's lynx. —Charles ¥, Adams, i 2 AN UNLUCKY ENGLIST REGIMENT, Iashington Cavitar, The recent fato of .the Tiventy-fourth Regl- ment of the British line fn Zululand fs pecul- . Jt's over nmv;' 3 torly melanchioly. The regimont s nearly 200 | amount in uestlonih “Two - dollars, yonrs old, having been origivally cmbodiod by Honor, sall " the lalutifls " cougest William of Orange In 1001, for service in the | gask (brmoors Ty e Judge. handing over the monuys “call tho nextcasey Ay English Judge was more patient, He "llfl;‘e‘a for a couple of days to the arguments of coug. sclf a8 to the construction of on act, and fnatly ovbserved, when they were done: +' Brothers, that nct was repealed a year azo.” Qpg morne Ing a woman was shown Into Dr. Abernetny'y Flomish War and the Netherlands, Its records show a tour of servico unsurpassed by any other regimeot of the British army for varlety and hord knocks, and it has always been unlucky, Its first oxperlence was a dlsaster, belng almoss annibilated at the battle of Stcenkirke when it | room. Boforo he could speak slic bared fer was hardly two years old, Subscquently It | srm, saylg, ©Burn.? A noultlco, raid thy suffered out of all proportlon to its comrades | Doctor.” Next day sho called agalp, abowed her arin, and sald: “ 9 Better,” ™ Continug {he poultice,” the response. A few dn{a afterxand shecamo again; then sha sald: ¢ Well,” Yoor feo?! “ Nothing,” safu the great physfelsn; “you are the mnost senaible woinan [ orer gan, Lord Berkeley, wishing to apprise the Duke of at Blenheim, Ramillies, and Malplaquet, and was finaily relieved und sent home, fn the Tatter part of Queen Anne’s War, In conscauence of the fmpossibllity of keeping its rank re- cruited, Forty yearanfterward it ind an almast similar expericace on the same rround, in the war ot tho succession, aud still later, in the [ Dorset of bis whanged condition, wrote: “Dear elzhteanth century, It suflcred immenso losses, | Doreot: I have just beon martled, and am tha and was at last captured bodily in the Amer: | babplest gop allve. Berkeley. ‘Tho auswer camu: “Dear Berkeley: Every dog 'has hig duy, Dorsct.” 'I'lic editor of & Chicago nemse paver, wanting tho details of a tereible fnunda- tion In Connecticut, telegraphed to a corre. spondont at Hartford: “"Eend full particnlars of the flood.” Tho reply came quickly: Yoy will tind them in Genesls.” fean Rovolution. Returoing to Eneland, it on- Joyed only a few years of rest when it was sant. to Egypt, nnd parcicipated in Sir Ralph Abur- cromblo’s onerations, Whero its bad luck did not desert it. ‘Iience the reglmont wentto the Peninsular, where It campalgned fivo years, suffering, as usual, beyond all proportion. It was foremost at the storming of Cuidad Rodrigo and 8t. Bcbastlan; in the ucliles of the Pyre- nees; in tho foreing of the pasaage of the Bid- nssoz aud the Nine, and in the battles of Nivelle, Ortles, nnd_ Toulouso, It eacaped Watcerloo enly by coming” to Amerlea, aftor the firat abdlcation of Napoleon, and participating in the fll-starred operations walch terminated ihe War of 1813 1 humiliation to the orms of En- gland. Then 1t was acot to Indis, where it bod o hard round of servico under.Combermero Hardlnge, and Napler, sufferite, ns usual, ¢x- cesslvely fn the first Bikh war, 1t wasno novice at the Cape, either, for it had already borue the brunt of two Kafr wars, and had done os much to cstablish DBritfsh rule in that quarter ns any other regiment that ever served there. In short, Englund has had only one great war In nearly 200 years fn which tlic old Tiweaty-fourth has not borno a hand,” That ono was the Cri- mean war, which it cscaped chlefly on account of the sympathy at the flora Guards for {ts un- lucky truditions, and, though it was on the ros- ter for forcign service when the Crimean was mado up, another regiment was detailed to take 1ts place, and It wns scut to one of the colonies, Tinally, alter nearly 200 years of slaughter {n ever. cl'lme, und in battle auzainat every encmy of England, civilized and barbarous, the Tiwen- ty-fourth has been annibilated by savages In Bouth Afrlcs. A 8T. LOUIS MAN'S IDEA. Cincinnatt Enquirer, Robert McCune was arrested for street-beg- zing, and brought up in the Police Court yeater- day for trial, 4 MecCune, where do you hall fromi" “From Bt. Louls, your Honor.” - “You have good clothes—your pants are, verhaps, too tight to bo n the severest style; but, aside from your nosc, yout have quite a respoctablo appearance. I am very much sur- prised that a gentleman of your cloth should bo arrested for atreet-begging.!? 8 “No more than was I, your Honor. I ex- plalned to the oflicer that bie was heaping o géoat indignity upon a worthy man. 8o far from strect-begging, your Honor, I was scattering charlty broadeast with Jovish hand,” #Tho officer testifics he saw you asking alms of every man, woinau, and child you met,” “1admit thut appearances are acainst me, and I request o word or two to explain,” “ T good enouuh to cut It short,? “ 1 am a zentlemnan of vast wealth, and it was slmply to bumor a whim of mine that I asked alne. It the oflicer had obsorved mo closely ho would have scen that I took the number und satroet of every persou who gave me anvthing, my [utention beinz to return ft a thousand- fold to-morrow. Tor instance, Ifochild gave men dime, the little cren d be sur- tonorrow morning, nerbaps before reakfast, with $100 done up In o neat paclage, and tled with a blue string, aly obXecn {8 to seck out the truo nnd noble und roward thein— to encourage thegood uud beautiful, [ can’t do this {f 1 am to be arrested aud drngg'od through the pubilc streets, can 17" . * How long rince you were herej” “I1 11 Kobert McCune, the philanthropiat! Nover was hiero in my life, sir; nover,” #Ofticer Jones, do'you know this mant” “Tarrested him about six weeks ago for stealing o ham froin & poor woman on Cuntral avenue, und took hitn to the statlon-house, You sent bim out for thirty days.! “The gentleman s pttaring a terrible libel. I never atolo a ham in my lite, Ibought a car- load of hams fromn a merchant on Pearl street und sent them South during the prevalencs ot tha yellow fever, but I scorn to steal, “Anther otlieer arrcsted hiin once for steal- ingz a phg of tobacco,” “Tho story Ia preposterous, your Honor, I own o wholo tobacco plantation, mid zive emn- ployment to iundreds of men, "1 have atacks upon atucks of tobucco to sell,” G RO¥\ | h'l,cculw, fv is the oplalon of the ourt——--» * [lold on, your Honor, hold on. Don't do anything rash, Dismiss this case and Jot mo go ot with my infssion of murey," “There 18 no doubt fu the mind of the ‘ELI PERKINS, *#Can a thing which has 1o Iife movel" asked Joseph Cook of Eli Porkins. **Of course they cau,” reptled Elf, “Why last year I saw o watch spring, o rove walk, a horse fly, 8 match box, & peavut stand, & miil dam, an oyster fry, and a cat fish; and this car,” contioued Ell, *I oxpect to sce a pesch {Xo\r, & gin ellug, a brandy smash, and—" Anything more, r. Perkins! *Why, yes, L expect 'to ace n slone fenes, @ canc brake, und a bank run,” * Did you over soe n shoe shop, a gum boil, or heor n codfish hawl{" asked Mr, Cook. “No, but 1've secn a plank walk, nhorse whip, and o trco toed; and I would not bs sur- prised somo day sco the peeat Atlantie coast, the Pacliic slope, a trea box, nnd—" As Mr. Cook left, Eil told him that he had ofton seen a very myaterious thing,—thathehad saen a uniform smile, W, \Vh{' I've often scon n swyord fish,” sald)r, Cook, * Yive acon hogs skin boots too, and once 1 saw some alllzator’s Indo shoes. Yes' ha continued, “Ir. Porkins, I bave cven beard tho bark of a treo,~nactually seen the tree bark, seen it hollor und commenco to leave, The trea held on to its trunk, which they were trying to selze for board.” BSEARCIIING FOR PAPA. Olezeland Jlirald. A lndy in the street met a little girl between 2 and 3 years old, ovidently lost, and crying bit- terly. T'holady took the baby's bund und asked where sho was goln “Down to find my papa," was the sobblng re ly. L ?"Whll is your mlun"'u name? " asked the lady, 1, 1s papu, “Bu!:l'v‘vfll::é1 ?afi{:a ‘I’).lllel‘ namiel What does call him ’n'fil?ém:.-‘xl:l‘fi him papa,” persisted tho littla creaturo, ‘The tady then tricd to lead her alone, faging, “Youbad better come with e, 1 guess jou came this way D “+Yes, but I dou’t want to go back, Iwantto find my papa,” replicd the lttls girl, erylog afrosh us thur heart would break. \Vhat do you want of your papal" asked the !nd‘yA *f1 want to kiss him,"” Just at this ttne o sister of the child, whohad been searching for her, came along aud took ossesslon of the Mttle runaway, From luquiry t appeared that the little ene's paps, whou e was 80 carnestly sceking, had recently dicd, and she, tired of walting for bim to cote home, bad gonoe out to find hitm, : QUIPS, ‘Wil the Pacifle slope? King Cetawayo's song: I Kafllr nobod), 1oy not I, and noboay Kaflirs me.” ‘Tho gamo the Britlsh played was, heads I'wio, talls Zulus,—Detroit Froe Press. DId the man who Rhiote Tsland ride straddle! It wouldu't take much of & stride to siraddie that State, | i i Thero wouldn't have bean any milk in cocoannt If some of our dairymon hiad bad the original construction of ft. The Fronch are ucquiring a more stable znv‘- ernment cvery yesr. Parls alone cansuums 11,210 horses Ifur ood last year. e Joaquin Mitler declares that belongstorel to lln-lwoo(lu;~|\n:l Jet us hope thut ho will %Z’- bofore the gume laws are fn fores agalt.— bury Te'eyraph. ) Glodstoue hos beon preaented with a n!lh‘: hatehot, “This places him underan nwkwlnln e sponsibility for the future. lo cannot tell3 —Harvard Lanpoon. 1t la suspccted ‘that, were Poo stlll alive, be bab would render his most. ‘Lrated poct 50 1 the refrain’should read: *Sald the raven, No# er—that 1s, bardly ever-more." End, v Alittle followof 0 years, at the South I told one of hils older brothers thut e h) cbfi;: ing to alwaya totl the truth, awl flu.‘ulldx s won't hiavo to go to schoul,on his birthday: Hoston Journal. v bya Irish Quakor was rocently replied to brS lm.l|\;I lmuln(azr. The Quaker wus u.xe‘l‘n{g;:l%. against agitation, The lady resuunflod, i good i the world was ever done withou! e tlonl W caunob oven makio butier ¥ o years 46 Ab, yes, aald Mrs. Partington s0mo AZo on tly;e $idof February, ns ahe wlnlulvl‘tm l“l lary P My of I (s bl e e the Il ek ot heom to have fallen on auy 1389 now Hylng.” e o B— died a p3 . m::'?:u" ?":’. oug of bls most lutimats ‘fnfnfl”v He was pale, confused, and awe-st ; e i one was trylng to cousols hiny, bul et im exclalmed, **dues 1ot B! ‘“'mll a g0 much us'his horrible luumuuue’. Hiibros you bellove it ha died without lcnvll‘lll‘!\.“n i hug in his will,—1 who huve dt'n»k 18 harsy at_ his own house threo tiuies 3 Wee yearsl ', . 5 of A toacher fn ono of the public :ltf\o:: the Mussachusetts was starticd the othe lr‘ 1o fellows unuwer slis golb from ouo brizht n ¢ On the biackboard was tho plets and the teacher described luh L vower of eudurauce, closing by 878 1, ouly bird upon whichu iu €oBT Know anothr,” spoko up, a little ¢ I ol ly the what fa Jei ek Tark. Unsuspectlity o ouyt—' . Rty ]']’Q careful, your Honor; don't commit your- No, I will commit you, It is !hmy days, Tho wagon will leave In a few minutes,’ . He puused on the threshold aud sald: - 41 wouldn't o a step, ouly I know that the Workhouses {s a splendid fleld for the prosecit. tlon of my wiesion of merey. Every miserable wretchIn that place shall be & milliongire be- fora to-morrow nigh 2 i GRANT'S TOREIGN TROPHINS, Pittabury Leuder, Tho preseuts of which Gen. Grant has been made the reciplout at different polnts of the circle ho has been swinging round of 1ate are at- tracting much attention at tho Loan Exhibition, whers they aro on view, as scen through & glass case, ‘The articles aro certatuly of such a pa- ture and value as to servo os strong reminders’ to tho General, when ho gets old, thut lo was once great, The severnl” tokeus of the freedomn of dlferent large citivs of Great Britaln ex- tenaed to the travelecare especlally hundsome, The colluetlon consists chlelly of these nud ad- dressca by differont persons and bodies. 'T'he {recdom ot Edinbure 1 ofered fn tangible fortn by a solld silver box, beautifully chased., Ihe box {s ubout 4831 Inches in slie, On the ld arethe coats-oi-arms of Neotland and the United Btates side hf' side, with the Goddess of Liberty in nrolui rellet belweon, - dhe dlplomaot burzhof Avoe, with seal, fs also given in a gald bo‘z with another tor the you bl % scal, ¥ teachpe, sk How can JOU 3id the bos ‘Ilie prosent from the City of Geucva is two | Johnuy!” **AUT Luo\lvl &.f:u\".'h‘l'le :“, 8 g:'fn b ther every u‘!‘l‘l ;lnm:l"n‘l?k, und whicn he cx:nm a9 If bo bad rods awful fast." Laudsome bronze medals bearing the faces of coln und Graut, in relief. The token of the frecdom of Glasgow la \ . 1§ ouis e