Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1880, Page 13

MADRID. The Royal Marriage-Fetes—Cos- tumes of Queens and Princesses. ATragio Bull-Fight—The Royal The- atre—Political Complications, Foneral-Sersice for Inandation-Vietims—An Episode of Murelan Itstory. Bpeclat Correspondence of The Chieago Tribune. Manip, Deo, 15.—Owlng to tho turmoil of polltical cxoftemont, nlmust without precedont in Madrid, intercat in tho Royal marringo-fetes fsconsiderably on the wnno, although the pro- arom of those {s still quitd extended, The colat of those already given, howaver, has been be- yond description,—particularly tho reception qrivon by Gon, and Mme. Martinez Campos, where all the illustrious forolgners in Madrid, tho Royal familly, and tho nobility of Spain wero assembled. Tho grand sntons, all ablaze with Jowols worn by splondid women, court-dresees of various nations, and the brilliant uniforms of Spain, Austria, Italy, and France, presonted » scone of unrivaled grandeur, Tho dress of the Queen was of white satin, pearl-embroldared, with draporles of point-d’Aloncon embroldered in Austrian cngles and tho flour-do-lls of tho Houso of Bourbon; that of tho Princess of the Asturina was of sky-bluc sntin, with yelvettrain. embroldered in eflyor Iilles-of-the-valley; while on overy hand magnificent tollots attracted the alght, some of which were adorned with tablicrs entirely covered with precious stones. Tho in- fantas Paz and Eulatio wero similarly attired, in white entin and tulle enbrofdered In pearls, with fringe of white convolyuius around all tho con- tours of tho drapery. Resptendent as the toilets of the Queen haya been at tho thoatre, baila, and recoptions, none havo beon so conspicuous as the onc she ap- yeared in at THE LAST NOLL-FIGNT,— a fight, olns! so tragic In its sploudor that mem- ory recalls with horror from the scono. Soated by the King, and surrounded by tho Court, the Queen, in it scarlot corsngo and white mantilia gleaming with gold embroldery, held in her hand akey adorned with ribbons, whick tho next mo- ment was thrown to tho alguncils with com- mands to open tho “torll.” The King, the Queen, the Court, aro all forgotten in the inten- sity of oxpeetation as this command is obeyed, and tho maddened bulls bound into tho arcna, Thon followed tho barbaric performances in thelr usual routing, which have go often been deseribed, until at length horses wero disem- powcled, a favorit pleadoro was killed, and all the pageantry of combntanta, in tholr old Spnn- ish knightly garb, the banderilleros’ with tholr crimson banners, and the matudors with thelr naked swords, acomed but the crention of a frenzied dream In tho midst of tho horror which surrounded the finale of the scone. “Tha porformances “at tho Royal Theatre in honor of tho Royal marriage havo attracted brilliant audiences, as may readily be fmugineds but those who have noyer visited Madrid oun form no idea of the fairy-tke coup-d'ell pre~ ented kero on grand ovensions. No thoatro fir tho world is better adapted for tho alent of elegauca, and a ingle glance places it all before you, The four eanies of boxes, ngconding, with- ‘out baicontes or gulterics, from tho arm-chairs of tho orchestra, afford an unobstructed view, and on gala nights produce a mngical offect, ag a brillant audience appears in nn unbroken Ar ray of aplendor bofora tho aight. The Royal ‘Theatre, however, {9 less attractive now than at the commencement of the fostivitles, na tho gloomy forebodings caused by fears of n political crisis huve considerably cooled the onthuslasm of the public regarding celobrations in honor of the monarch and his bride, TUE GRAND UBNDEZVOUS OF MADRID seems td be nt present In the Callo San Geron!- mi, during the scanccs in the Legislative Palaco; and here indignation vents itself in threntening Innguage on account of tho proceedings In the Konate, and the dismisston of Gen, Martinez Campos; and it has been fenred that n unant- mous and, powerful uprising of the Opposition would bo'tho result. Yesterday tha pence~ officers woro unablo to cnlm tho excitement, and tho Govornor of Mudrid in porson was ania to interfero with a strong forco in order to allow circulation in tho thoroughfares, A crisis easily resolved itsolf Into un insurrection, and insur- rections {nto revolutions; and a crisis is now Jooming up in pain, more dangerous than any tho Restoration has experienced. ‘The retusul of Canovas to accept o tho Constitutional party, in the Chamber of Deputies, last Wednesday, adds considerably to the complication of affalrs; ond minds already agitated by tho dismission of Martinez Cumpos, and alarmed at tho delay regarding colonial re- forms, scizo this plausible pretext to form A oworful unfon, and the Cablnet finds itself to- ay confronting all classes of tho Left, from the Generals who huvo realigned to tho Conatltution- allsts who demand explanation on tho singulur attitude of the Cabinet towards tho minority. Inthe Cortes the benches of tho Left and to Contro are empty, while tho Centralists, under Alonzo Martinoz and Benor Sagasta, in tho namo of thelr friends and those of the Duke do In ‘Torre, aro forming unions and framing oner~ gotfo resolutions. Thoy have resolved to ab- atain from all dette’ with tho Cablact unicss Canovas answers tholr domands {n open seunces of the Cortes; which resolution was forwarded to Marechals Srrrano and Zavala, who necept it on principle, stating thoir military dutios will not allow thom to mingle with the union, ox- centing with thoir sympathy. : = OREOLE NEYRESENTATIVES aro inconaed nt the debates in tho Senate on sbo- Ution which abolishes nothing for oight yonrs, and which, to plense tha pluntors, prolongs, with renewed aogeravations, slivery and crucity; polemics of tho presa are becoming bitter an oxojted; Constitutionalists aro indignant that tho King hag nut consulted them; and the defoat of Gen. Crinpos has produced on Cuban Senntors and Deputies the most deplorable eifect, Thoso, in addition to tho other sorious «disturbances, havo depressed the King, who, looking around him in vain fora settloment of tha dullcultics, at longth concluded to summon Gon. Martinez Campos to the Pasnco, iu order to persunde him toexert hia iniluence in suppressing a crisis, Loyal to his sovereign, the Genoral mado the at- tempt; but procced|nys had gouo. too far, Tho honorablo withdruwal of tho resigning Marcehal has mado him tmmonec} popular, which fact Induced the King to confer with ing a proof of his confldunce in tho Judgment and integrity of one who preferred to aocept his disinission from the Ministry ratborthan become anally toslayery und conservative realstance. Assoon as tho olllclal digminsal of the General Was received, meetiugs were called to express publio sympathy with his uction in the mutter, and perfect ovations follow ench other, in which many ladles of Mudrid havo domonstrated the free stintcrest. Gon, Martines Campos {a cer- fainly ina more envinblo position than—I was going to say—his sovorelyn; but, ns this may bo Tegancd a8 an exaggeration, I will postpone my dcclsion until further duyelopments. Madrid bas been go joyous of Into, so full of splondor, so teoming with brilliant toples of In- terest, that thera -his boen no opportunity to notlco oyonts overshadowed with gloom, al- though the Itoyal family have been partlolpants incoremonirs connected with theso in several iostanocs, Principally, THE YUNENAT KERVICE at the Church San Jose for the victims of tho In- Undation deserves mention on wecount of the impressive ceremonies and the semaputhy: ox- Dressed by tho bighest families fu Madrid. Many Weroin mourning, and many wont ns tho requiem for the dead way chanted in tones of magic hare mony thut seamed to descend frum Heaven, The King and the Princess of tho Avturina were much affected during the mournful celebration, evincing dcop surrow for the Heparted who had eon so auddenly swept uwny by the inundation, ‘Tho Archbishop of Toledo wis wong tho diss tngulshod visitors at tha Church Sin Jose on that memorablo oocaslon; and it fs also worthy: of remurk that, owing to bis erpoalty, anum- ber of survivors recurved immedinte rellof when thoy wore thrown homeless and hotness on tho World. ‘The terribly calamity to which Murcia Was 80 recently subjooted is without o parallel in the history ‘of Bpuin; but, in searching tho ) Gatorm of unusual magnitude 1s plated havo passxi over Murcia during tho political (roubles in 1&4, with which the following histor- al episode fs connooted: “Tt was an awful day; 6 furious storm swont OVer thy whoto Provinceot Murela, Thoro was nothing heard but the tempest roaring through tho mountains, and the north wind rushing in Grevlees: and ravines, ‘Tho horizon was red und lazing; tho lightning awopt over tho Sicrrn Morena’ so incessantly fron a distance, fi gues of fire seemed fasulng fram tholr gur- aco, At this hour thore were men laughing and drinking, with little heod thut the heavens tere terrible above thom, or that tha carth was mbllng, It was nothing ta them that tho fernpest was shivering rocks and uprootl Hott they rojelced to ininylo thoir songs with eo tuinult of storms, These nin were students Of Andalusia, who had established thensolves in She of the chiins uf mountains which run through Provinoy of Murclu. From thonco they made excurvions fn the neighboring countrys id a lurge band was goon organized, Six Months had scarcely pussed uway when TUE ANTHYPID GUERRILLANOS Pecama formidable. Thoy protested villages 0 the exactions of the woliicra of the Queon; 7 ve awuy brigunds without number, wha, Bader tho name of Christinosor of Curltstn, car: desolation throughout the country; andzas ¥ elr number auginented day be ar thoy did me Coniine thoir excursions a roy= ky erol but advanced ng far te ndolusia, where they generally Tomained sot} duys. A profound cavern wus tholr page ef sojourn: Approach a fow fuvt with rocks, you not soe yonder enor inass of ston: with great crovioes wnd archesof inussive ‘Alto Well, {tis there they ure, Huye uo fear] fant ty h they carry the vspingula and tha pons ‘Antonie? AS wen, of honor, these suldiors of lo. “Liberty? is tho pass-word, Atlongth lebate with Lanures, of: him,—thus giv-- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. wo are jnthoeavern, Tho men of Antonio were at tables Mled with glasses and bottles of wine, Antonio was intho midatof thems an algrotto adorned his hat, and a ponturd with aaliver hilt hung ot hie bolt, He suddenly struck the table, when silence followed; and’ in a thundering volcg he exclaimed: “*het uadrink to the Conatlltution of 1818, that we will defend to our Intest browth |" “To the Constitution of 18131" repentod all: tho volecs in the citvern, “* Now to the liberty of atl Spaint’* “Suddenly a detonation was heard without, ‘The Kentincls erted, “To wrnist’ Tha retreat of tho querrilleros was discovered. The Christinos hod obstructed all the pnssages, There wasn fearful combust within tho cavern, and the atorin without was fur less territlo than that within, Tho guerrillvraa wore oxterminated, but the eavern of Antonio can aull bo seen In the Prov- ince of Murcin."” ML. MAMMOTH GAME. \ Whaling In Charicaton Harbor. Charleston (9.0.) News, Soveral days ago the nlinost unprecedented presence of a whalo in Charleston hnrbor was Nnnotineed. Whethor driven hero by stress of. weathor, seeking misanthropic scctusion from hile kind, or on an exploring expedition, will hover be known, but his presacnce was a huge, binck verity, “Sovergl.timid and ineffectual at- tempts nd been mado toeffect his capture or destruction, Uut all wero tutilo until a.regular hunt was organized yesterday, Mr, Armstrong Hall, engincer, and Capt. Smith, of the tug Royal Arch, feading ft. Tho attacking forco originally consisted of two of Bfcssra, Bangs & Daolby's row-bonta, ench manned by threo ouramen, an experienced and trustworthy coxswain, and aman inthe bowof ench armed with abarpnon, Othor bunts with their crows Joinet inthe chase, however, when the whale was seen near Fort Sumternat about 9450. m. He had been first. met and struok on tho bar, howover, by the bonis abnvo mentioned at about 8 o'clock, # harpoon and line being made fast in hla body near the tall. Pursuit was continued, ono of tho bonts towing after tho whalo by tho Ane, nod the other being rowed to within a short aistanco of him as ho would risc to blow, and the harpoons belng launched at him whenever a favorable oppurtunity offered. During the chase he had been working hls way landward, und soon got in the shonl wator near Fort Johnson, on James Islund. In his struggics he became entangled in tho stout Itne attached to tho : harpoon, ant .svound himself in itso thatitheld him firmly. He remained in the shoal water during the morning, the lino having been cut to save the bont during A “duty,” and fn tho afternoon, at about 1:30 o'clock, an atteinpt was mudo to secure him. Four stenm-tugs—the Morgan, the Itepubile, the Wado Hampton, and tho Royal Arch—were pros- ont, besides probably flfty or elxty rowbonts, and n few aniall ailing craft, ‘The news of the capture had spread rapidly, and quite a crowd, including a number of ladies, gnthered on the battery and watched tho strug- gie (hat onsued. ‘he Ino was taken wbourd and mindo fast to one of the tugs, which attempted to coax tho fish towanls the city. But tho steamer proved to bo too unhandy foretho dulleate manipulation | required, “and tho ine was anally uunippad, i piece of consider able longth being lett attached to the whalo, worn en traine. ‘Then ensued n series of excit- ing manouyres, The tugs would pppronch him in turn ns Spportiiaity: offered, und those abourd would drive lances and harpoons ut him with more or less affect, or attempt to throw great running nooses over tha dukes of his tall ns they were thrust above the surface in tho creature's strugyles, Ho indulged in a series of tho moat oxtraondinury gymnastic performances, turning coinpleto somersaults, and occasionally standing on his bead apparently. for sovoril moments, with from two t alx feet of his tall projecting nbove the water. Meantline, muny of the sninll bonts wero dodging ntout him, and missiles wore hurled at him whenever a fair chance wis offered. ‘Time and tignin barbed hurpoons and the long keen bindes of lances were pied into his sidesand back, and timo and ngain did they fail to hold, being drawn buek hy the linca of thetrownors, Ile was slowly but surely scut- Mog and turning himecl£ through the mud, which was scen upon his head several times, noross the Aahley Kiyor toward Whito Point Gurdon, the centre of an ever-varying circle of ull sorts of craft, nrmed with nll sorts of wenps ons, Jn bis progress ho rauunder the bow of the schooner Miunchuba, where earnest oforts wero minde to lusso him, 1 compliment which he returned by‘standing on highend and thrishing hor with his tail until sho shook from stem, to stern. Ha struck several blows upon her Jib- ‘boom, which was dnmaged aomewhat, tha rig ing thereabaut being badly torn. ‘He would lash the water with the flukes of bis tal, muk- fog res Hke the dischargo ofa musket, and drenching all hia neighborhood. He camo to, the surface Tequently to which hoe did with a nolse resembling that made by the blowing aut of steain from un engine, sending « fountain from out of his nostrils. At one timo he got benenth the bow of one of the tugs, lifting it almost clenr of tho water, aud a stroke of bis tall wreuched off one of the cabin doors that stood open. It fs im- oxsiblo to describe, and almost impossible to maging, the tremendous force of one of these strokes, Tho groat volumo of wator that roso after ench showed tho immonse strength that ‘wus put forth In them, 2 Two of thu tugs run over him, and the pro- eller of tho Wade Hampton gavo him sovorat blows, (ho offoota of which were seen upon his Dioeding back 4s ho next rose, The lino had also ovidently chafed him considerubdly, the skin nenr the tail being porceptibly raw from it, It appeared about this time as if he was almoat exhausted. He would mow and thon cqnse his strugules entirely, and lie placidly upon the wator with almost his entire body ox Fock us if resting. | Observers could almost: Imagine that they could see nim: punt, and bis snorts came th fie succcasion, and scemed to bove a ring of diatross or despair in them. His motions, too, wer slower and ntore Ianguld, ag if he wore about to relinquish tho ‘uncqual struggle and die. Allthis time the two boats that had origi- nated the chaso had stendlly followed him up,tho mon in tho bows driving thole long tances Into his body near where their uxperionce taught them was a vital point, Suddenly there was a cheer, Quo of the tugs rathor {involuntarily had gotten so closoon him that the remainder of the tine hanging to hin was secured by a boat-hook, and quickly spliced to an- other Hine on board. About balf an hour of playing hin followed, when the Ine which bad oon stranded gradually, again parted, Halt a. dozen efforts were made to throw a noose over his tall from tho deck of tho Wade Hampton, from whieh place such tritles as a ritte-bullet or 80 and two or three balls from a Inrxo revolver were fired into him_without hereoptible elfect. Ong or two of the efforts to throw tho noose over him wore vory nearly successful, but ho scomed w fouire bonenth the water as it fell about hit, Anothor cheer announced anothor apprront success, A lunce thrust from one of the Ban, & Dolby bonts had evidently struck him deeply andthe men in her yelled oxultantly us thoy rupidly bycked uway, Tho blood poured out ai aed he. Wator around and in a fow sec onds i gigantio plume of crimson spray arose us ho enn up td blow. As he lifted is aide from the wator and struck another gigantic blow, the blood could bo acon pouring forth in Astronm like that trom o smut! hose, Ho lay compuratively quict, and another and atrongor ne was pasdod about bin from tho Morgun, ‘With thig he was played for another half hour, during which tine the boata kept, stonully ssl him whenover ho appoared, Ho bad by thls thno changed his courso somowbut, turn= Ing toward the contre of the harbor, and cross- ing the stream across the bows of tho bark Framat, which ho narrowly missed striking. Tho confusion of bouts and lines was vory great,—tugs, battenux, and rowing-bonts being Ruthored About the lsh, alternutely advancing and buciing amid @ chaos of yells, oxths, crivs of warning, aud orders,—tho confusion being Jnercased when the object of all attention woul suddenly bogin to lnsh tho water or execute some fancy nioyemunt, causing a wild ecattering of eruft on all aides, ‘That somo one was nof drowned or knocked in tho head fs @ subject of woneral wonder, At Inst, when Just. plongetde the Wade Hnmp- ton, the whale, who had nes enough about bin almost foro ania Hewine. aoemed suddenly to doolde to freo himsolf by ono mighty cifort. In second, almost, the water for many fect about him bovame a mass of secthing, howving foum. Tle turned over and ovar, fairly churned the sea, with bis tall, threw first his ugly boad and then the grent, black, rubber-looklng Hukes far above the surface, and bent himself almost doublo, stralghiening out again with terrific violence, Whon tho foam and spray wero one, and mon hid an Snp petty: 0 look, the Morgan's ine was found sluck and broken, Tho whale had freed himself and disappeared. His trick was rapidly followed, tho struggle paving by this time ven brought to a polut opposite the Southe ern Wharvea, which wore packed with people. ‘Thy gumo wppoared once or twico at long in- tervals, and was finally como up with by tho pursuers, now greatly diminished f ers, on the eastorn side of Cooper River, near the shore... Again tho chuse became hot, one or two. atrokes Lelng given, and tho Sorgan ruuniug over the whalo aguln, About thls tlie, how- ever, hv ran so closo in that the tugs wero ufrald to follow, aud stood Idly at a distance. Only about soven rowboats werd now engaged in the hunt, tho othora’ having retired from it, among the few which atill followed being that Jald hands upon by tho News and Courter doputas on, to the unknown owner of which tho thanks of tho sutd deputation ore bereby tenderud, Tho fish turned ond went down Hog lalund Channel, the ourumen pulling steadily and choerily after in, ‘Talk of sport}. What aport 1s comparable with the rush through the witer after such hu; gato a8 this, when tired muscloa forget thulr weariness and gro endowed with frosh life at ‘ovory sight of tho great heud und every splash of* the monster's body? Give wwayl Give away with # will! And with oars golng, guu- wales parting the suiooth water, which seginod to rush by, and every nerve and sinew tense aud firm, tho chuse followed, no ono knowing futigue or stopping to measure distunees fy wuch a hunt, At lust tho boata huddled tek thor, and apread -again ina clrole, as the Nba caught up with, A moment nad tio sppear, and to it moment along boat shoots his side, and: the man In the bow, cool and stuady, aud with w dellberu> tlon that looka crucl, plunges his Inneo into “tho “mountain.' bf eiesh, while the onra nro backed with oa rush and surge, and the onfft glides away, Again and ngain this ts repented, tho boats moving Ina rontinital semi-circle, hemiming tho great fle in, and forming a barrier, which ho could burst Uke A pock-thread if ho know It, tothe deep water where his safety and roat Hes, Blowly ie works out, tacking this way and that, and getting the merelless steel Spon ‘almost every renpprarance, Tle wre ovidently weakening this time. Iie plunges beneath tho water. were shorter and shorter in duration, and ho seemed to gaxp for brenth ashe came up. At last n barefooted satlor in one nt tho first two bonts—the man who atruck tho first blow in the morning (Garrl- son, of North Carolinn)}—drove bis [anes hone The boat. backed away, but there was no need for tt, An Inert black inass Iny upon the mur- face, moving gently, with the motion of the water. Dend ut Inat! ‘Then tho bonts rushed {1 and clustered arounit tho dend glunt. The Royal Arch camo up, and from her deok some one fired a rifleeball into the whale's back. ‘Thero was romething like a shudder, a feeble serpentine motion of the boily, and then stillness, ‘This was just at sunsot off Shom Creck, on the onst shore, and cheer after eheer arose, the whistle of the tug joining4n the triumphal chorus. Lines were quickly mada fnst nbout the gront body, and ft was towed tn Sullivan's Island, whore ft will romaine part of to-day. The fish isa“ right whale.” As well ox could be ostlinated lant night his length ly from forty to fifty fect, and the thickness of his body fram ten to fifteou fect, Tia captors catimnte Unt he will yletd from $600 to $600 worth of oll. When examined after death the body and aides of the monster wore found to be thickly seamed and senrred tn every direction with the marks of lances, harpoons, and hooks, showlug that tho hunters had alined wel A DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY. ‘Weat Irelnnd’s Miacrable Condition. Correspondence London Telegraph, For several years past the seasons have been bad, and thut or Inst year meant wbsolute entastrophe, Potatocs rotted In the ground, and were dug tp asinasses of corruption; barley, and oats, and beans, exposed to un- timely Atlantic storms, wereloveled with the: ground or torn up by the roots; turnips alckened in the sour soll—there they are still, some of thom—and a plg would hardly delgn toroot them up; while the Inceasant rain maduit Impossible to Inyin a store of turf. Asfor the fishing Industry, the poor people have neither the boats nor the gear requisit for deep-sea fishing In winter, and so they are cut off from overy imenns of earn ing a Jivelihvod. Knowing all this, Twas prepared for snd scenes at Kildonay, but even If Ind given linagination full pisy itcould not have conjured up those which setually met my eyes, Our route lay for some tinte through a dreary and neglected country, sodden with wet, undraincd, and In some. cnses fast going back inn state of bog. Here and there « larger farmstead than usual, surrounded by well-kept fields, showed that -cupital, as well as In- dustry, was at work; but these were very exceptional instances, and only, by contrast, deepened the prevailing melancholy, Pres- ently we came to a large house, with woods round {t, Inte the residence of the Protestant, Rector, and a few hundred yards beyond, on what used to be the Bie e, and in full view ,of the raging tlantie—then a truly ‘melancholy occan"—we | found the | village. need not deseribe an Trish hamlet, Its shiftiesness and squalor ure chronic, and cyerybody must be fanillar more or less with the scone. But lot me tell of my oxperience amone the dwellers in these wretched homes, for homes they ure, al- thongl the English eye refuses to recognize in thom nny home-like quality, My presence in the place was soon noted, tnd it appeared as though the whole male population, young and old, turned out to discover the renson. ‘They had nothing better to do, poor fellows, and it may have struck them that a stranger, whatever his Immediate business, must mean todo them good, since no further evil, save the dreaded eviction, could befall. Butivhat- ever the reason from my arrival in the place UT left it Thad a train of badly-clothed and badly-fed men and boys at my heels, all enger_to Bu) ply. information, all anxious that I should “seo tho wretchedness of others rather than thelr own, and all full of a beautiful sympathy for those in the place who were even more helpless thin them- selves. Theso poor Irishmen impressed me most favorably. ‘They mada no foolish com- plainta; they prilsed their landlord ag a “da- eent man,” who, being only a distillery fore- man in Derry, could ill afford to lose his rentas and they could only hope, with n res- Senation touch Ing to witness, t the “ good Lord” would cause someth' ng to bo dono for thom, and that soon, Tlie first cabin Into which I went was a place that an English- man would think too bad for his pig. Its floor, of carth and stones, reeked with damp, and water even stood in the hollows; the only furniture was a few cups and saucers, 2 stool or two, aud as many tubs and pols; in_one corner a mass of dirty straw had evidently been used ns a bed and on: the wretched hearth smoked rather than burnt an apology for a. fire. ‘The man of the house—shgeless and coatless, pale and haggurd—sat idle upon « bag of In- dian meal, boyond which his fond resources did not go, and through the gloom around the hearth—theroe was no window to speak of—could be dinly made out one or two crouching female figures. I never saw any- thing. in’ tho, way of « home ino civilized country—and ‘I have seen ao good deal— more appalling than this. Yet here was tha enso of o man renting threa acres of tand, and usttally getting what he would be content to calla living out of thom, Now, alas! he and thousands Of others like him Nave reached the end of thelr miserable last season’s crop, and boyond thom buta little way lies starvation. Tho half-bag of Indian meal was all that tho .famlly. had, nothing more remaining upon. which, by sale or mortage, money could bo raised, and to the auestion, * What will you do when tha meal ves out?” came tho ‘Tho food Lord only knows.” Not far from this [was shown by my mel- ‘ancholy attendants into an equally wretched hovel, whera_ 5 widow with goven: young children was te iting the bitter battle of life, and Fanldly get Ing worsted inthe struggle. She herself had gone out gathering what she could of stuff to make a fire wherowith to cook the family dinner, consisting—O ny. brothers in comfortable En- lish homes—of 8 single cabbugol tut othe §=poor little children half clothed, thin, and hollow-eyed, were there to lead with heartronding eloquence for ald, nce more L heard tho old story, Tho land had ylelded nothing; rf could be ob- tained for fuol short of & journcy of elght miles, and the family had ‘touched absolute destitution. Over the way, in unother apol- ogy for a dwelling placo, I found three poor women trying to kindle o firo with dam beanstalks, their only crop, In ordor to coo! adish of Indian meal, their only food, ——————— ‘Truth Worat of All, Detroit Pree Press, Arman who sild ho was trying to get enough money togethor torench Toledo yesterday on- tored ‘an office on Griswold street and told hia story, end added that hla namo was Cicaar, “ Any rolation to Jullus or Agustus?” quoried tho eltizen, “Woll, no, I want to be honest and square about this thing, and I toll you honestly that I am not rolated to either.” “Thon f can’t help you any. You are nothing but a common sort o' plug, and it won't niako any difference whother you over got to Cleyo- Innd ornot. If you were related to the Arewt Julius I should feel in duty bound to holp Ou.’ ‘thio man bucked-out without. anothor word, and entering tho offico noxt. door he walkod up to the ocoupant with the romarkt “My name {6 Ciosar, ond 1am closely related to Julius and Auguatus, Can you spare mo 1Q centa to help mo got to Toledo?" “Bir, Zou nro a base deoolver!" replied tho other.’ “You are no moro related to the Cresara than Tam | Had you como in here and told mo tatraight, truthfal story I should bave givon you a quarter! You can go, air|* ‘The than went nut, ond he determined to tall the truth and nothing but the truth. Halting the firut man who came rlong, ho sald: “Thave been tolling fotke that iny name was Cwwsar, and thut 1 was tytn to collect monoy snough to take mo ta ‘Tolude. Now, tho reul truth of the matter fs that 1 am named Clark, and wanted tha money to buy whisky, ‘That's the solomn truth, and can you help mo with 10 centa? Pen conta! Why, you base Har and decolyor, Ei band you ovor Wa tho polloal” exelulmed eather, * J'vo told you the truth,” “And it's onough to send you up for alx months! Don’t you dare ask mo for monoy)"" ‘Tho tramp sat dows an a ould atone block, took, bis luat chew of tobacco, and mused: “I've Hed and I’ve told the truth. I'vo told the truth and I’ve lied. I mad¢ as much one way a4 thovther,and nothing out of either. Looks now as if I'd got to play deaf and dumb or go to work!" S despairing nnewor, At An Odd Sight. A large elu: troo atood on the spot where a man at Lewiston, N. Y., decided (erat a toste dence. Ho did not cut it down, but built around It. The odd Aipbe In presentod of a treo-tun growin, out of the roof of s handsome bric! 1OUsO. Every person should use Brown's Camphoratod unineous Dentifrive, the best preservatlve of riority is fact. 2% conta, ‘Avold counterfeits, ae PARIS AND LONDON. Frosts and Fogs—The Delights of a Phenomenal Winter. Christmas in the Hnglish Capital—The Pantomimes —Tennyson's New Play, Speetal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Lonvon, Deo, 20.—I turned my back on Paris the other day with feelings of the livelicst natiss faction, Lifo in the eo-called Queen City has been, furs full month past, slow martyrdom— tonll but tha very rich; and I question whethor even they would care to have another month of it. Tho snow and tho Ice hive peralsted with only a few hours’ Interruption. We have beon chilled to the bone nt might, and frozen to the marrow in the morning. Constinption and want have stalked hand-in-hand down imany strects and lanos,—have peoped together into many poverty-stricken homes, and awept off many fecble victlina, Food has been at almost slege- prices, and fuel sometitnes unobtainable at any mrice, It has nceded great courage to glide Into the glacini sheets at bedtime, and greater toquit even thelr frigid and cheerlers shelter for the flerce binst nnd the pititess snow out of doors. Tho theatres have been balf empty. Car- ringes and public yebicles of all sorts bavo been rare and costly. In fact, the winter has ‘been hideously Arctic, not to suy Antarctic: and wehaye not had the domestic comforts of tho Fequitnouxto belp us to becowdng und stolld fortitude. Isee, however, from tho lust reports, thatthe turnin the atmospheric tido has como tit last, The thormometer, after having sunk as luw as Bl deg, below zero Centiqrade in somo parts of Franco, rose—in Parie—to 6 deg, abavo freeztug yeatordny. The jee ts breaking up on the Scinu. Skaters and sliders are no longer seen on the rivor; and, with tho blessing of a merciful Providence, J sbnll, on my return to the nelghborbood of tho Puntheon, no longer huye to endure cold torture. Crossingon tha mall-packet from, Calals to Dover, I stood as ft were between Scylla and Churybdls, On tho one hand. tho rock of bitter, swolfiak cold. On the other, 9 turgid whirlpool of fog, Christus was a very damp affair in Englund this year, Lissure you, Fog, heavy, thick, smoky, Toul; stifling, hung over London, and covered even the suburban bights, Chriateapalne was remarkablo, I am sorry I cannot say it was unique. Wa rose at 10 under tho impression that it was about %, Gus wus burning in the streets, dnt all you suw was a ped-siipy curtain spread in front of your window, and effectually hiding overy object, animate or inanimate, from view. Beelag across the road was of course out of tho qhestion; and so wrs eecing neross the footpath some parte of tho day, Those persons who nuductously ventured out to tho church round the corner in the morning, trusting to the guld- ance of thoir own noses und to ingtinet for get- ting Into tholr pows before the Tc Deum was sung, hud a bailing and disuppolnting experl- ence, A respoctuble femule accosted me at about, holf-pagt 11a. m., in front of St. John’s Chureh, Angell ‘Town, with 1 timid: “Could rect mo to.St. John's?” “Certainly,” I replied. ‘It's the building over tho way,—the first one you come to,” She thanked mo politely, crossed, and—dived flown street to tho loft, If sho went far, abo must havo got to St. Mark's, Brixton, which no doubt served her purpose well cnough, Tho fog in London put nstop to most of tho trifle ag thoroughly as tho toy wenthor in Paris, Lanterns wero brought out to guide the erriny Covkneyson their rond. The fow "buses ane cabs abroad went ata font-miee, now and again Finding: themselves on the sidewalk, and fre- quently losing thomselycs altogether. As for paying yisits, tho vyory idea wus preposterous, venture to nasert that, to the Immense majori- ty of middle-class Londoners, Christmns-day merry-tnnking resolved fteelf inte this: A dole. ful breakfast nt 10.0. my by gusiight; followed He four or flyo aimless hours of boredom; an ine dlgeatible fenst of turkey, ronst beef, plum- punting and anne ies, wae baal neat by an el eortutn qiuntity of lowood port; supper agaln, ne iniligestibia Tetho inaersand—ueh Hed,on af tho wholu, was the best thing In the programm, For tn London, however gloomy and grimy the surroundings may bo, we iro at least warm. In Paris I have beon positively frozen out of bed evory morning lately. Pantomime seems to have no whit lost its Place yet in tho estoem of English poople, It stil holds Sts own bravely in tho Weat Bnd, and flourishes in tho Transpontine and Engt-End houses, At’ Old Drury” the pantomime fs this year “Bluo Beard,” and tho author of i a8 ‘usual, the veteran Blauchurd, who now thinly disguises his fdontity under the pscudonym of “Tho Brothors Grinn,’—a tnost appropriate one, for tho children grin, and fndeed roar, from ond to end of the performunes. ‘Tho clder folk tind “Blue Beard” somewhut stale and unprofitable, maybe; but who cures for those at Christmns- time? At Covent Garden a gorgeous spectacle 4s presented with thoattractive title of “Sindbad tho Sailor,” written by Frank W. Green. At tho Princess’ the great succesd of Charles Reado's “Drink,” now fast approaching Its 200th repre- sentation, hn mare it unnecossary to introduce nuy apecial holiday-prograun. At tho Impo- rial (formerly the Hoyal Aquurium) Thentro © Little Ited iidlug Hood" {3 the chosen heroine of tho pantomline. A “Children's Piinfore" is the Opera Cauiisyas with eager little ones, ‘The great ‘Transpoutine atrongholil of panto- mime glyes us 0 new version of the unwearying story of * Alnddin,” with Topsy Venn and Nelly Moon in the leading parte. The sume “Alnddin,” imixed up somehow with “Ali Baba and the For+ ty Thieves,” {8 the attraction this winter ut San- rs (otherwise Astley’) while, at the Alham= pea, Hotheningy Se grand fairy extravaganza, with muale by MM. Buculosse, B, Solomon, Grae ton Serpette, and Juvobi—bos beon produced, and js well spoken of. anit ttho more Hlerary theatres, f iind, firstof all, Honry Irving and Ellen Terry do- Nghting all London by thelr remarkable imper- sonutions of Shyluck ‘and Portia tn ‘Tho Mer- chant of Venice.” * The Old Lovoand the Now," adapted to the nails, stago by James yaa faontho billsatthe Court Theatre, At the St. James, which ts at present managed by Blossrs. Haro & Kendal, Alfred ‘Tennyson's now onesact play, adapted from tho Itatlan of occuccio, was put beforo tho publlos fortnight ngo, Tho title tg “The Falcon,” and the story ia one of tho beat-known {n tho “ Decnmeron.” Tho critics toll me that it i490 great Improvement, from A dramatic potut of view, on * Harold”; but, tor all that, Leannot bring niyself to betlove that it is wauccess. However protuly tho tulo reada in Rocencelo, st is of tho most milk-and-watery vhnrueter, and contains nosinglo dramatio point of interost for an author to entch ut. anny MeuTzan, Dickons’ Advice to Fils Son. From * Dickens’ Letters." - q Apztrit Horen, Livenroon Thursday, Oct, 15, 1868.—My Duan Hany: Uhnve your letter here this morning. J Inclogo you anothor check for £26, nnd L write to London by this post or. dering three dozer Bherys two dozon port, and threo dozen light claret to be sent down to Oe Now, obsorve attentively. We muat have no shadow of debt, Sqtture up overything whatso- ovor that it has been necessary to buy, Lot not a farthing bo outstanding on any wecount whon we begin togethor with your allowance, Bo par- dculur In the minutest detail. Lwish to have no secreta from you in the ree lations wo are about t establish togethor, and T therefore send you Joo Chitty'’s letter bodily, Heading it, you will know oxuotly what I know, and will understand that I treal 7 with ere fect contidence. Itappenrs to me that an allow- anco of £250 0 year will be handsome for all yon wants, if Tsond you your wines, I mean ‘hig to jucludo your tuflor’s bills as well ns overy othor expense, and I strongly recommond you to buy nothing in Cambridge, und to take credit for nothing but the clothes with which your tailor provities you, As soon us you biye got your ture niture necounts fn, let 18 wins all those prelim nary expenses c)ean out, and I will thon send you pur, fret quarter, We will count in it Gotober, foyember, and ‘Deeembor, and your second warter will begin with thé now yeur, If you slike at first taking charge of so largo a6um ns £02 408,, you can have your money Irom me half-quarterly, g You kuow how bard I work for what I get, and [think you kuow that I never had money- help fram any bumnan creature aftor 1 was a child. You know that bY aro one of many heavy charges on mo, and that | trust to your so oxerclulng your guilities and luproving the ad- Yantagos 0 your just expensive cducation as oa t 1 as this charge. I say nomoreon end. ‘Whatever you do, above all othor things keon out of debt and confide In mo, If you ever find yoursolf on tho verge of ony, porpfexity or dite culty come to me, You wiil nover find me hard with you whilo you aro manly and truthful, As your brothers buy gone away one by one, Thavo written to cuch of thom whut Lam now golng to write ta you. You know that you bave nover boun humpered with religious forms of Tostraint, and thut with micro unnieaning forms Thavoe no yun pathy. Hut T most strongly and afoctionately Jinpress upon you the priceless yaluo of tha Now Testamont und tho study of that book us the one unfulling guide in Mite, TDeoply respecting tt, unt bowing down bofore the character of aur Sivlor os separated from tho valu constructions und inventions of men, you cannot & very wroug, and will always proserve ut beurt w true spirit of venuration and bumil(ty, Similarly 1 {press upon you the hablt of saylug a Christian prayer every olght andinorning, Thuse things have’ stood by me all through my life, and remember that I tried to rondor tho Now Tostamont tatelligibla to nee lovable by you when you wore a more And #0 God bless you. 2 4 Kyer your affectionate Fathor. —————— Loroley'’s Lair Erkan Up. Tondun Telegraph, Of all the German water-nymphs with whom Hojno, Fouque, and Ubland baye mado us uc- quainted, the mout mischivvous misunthropleul, beyond doubt, is Larcloy, This woducttve song. stress, whose residence fs the Miterior of 4 buge rock, {uiting out into the swift Rhine streain near 8t. Gour, bas mado it her constant practice for some conturiog pust to lure sontimenutal qauthe to a watery grave by enllathenio per- ‘ormances of nn inviting character, with necoin- Fauiment obligato of amatory carols, In par Jeular, she bas acquired fatal renown for an Altogothor Irresitihla manner of combing her yellow hair by moonlight, which, If we may rels upon local traditions, has ero now done the bual- ness of many 8 siacoptible “inossy-headed ro- nowner.” As her indulgence tn ‘thin class of recreation 1s sald to be inveterate. and aa eho bas never been known to let of a single victim to her fascinitions, even when her prey ha pened to ben family man, little sympathy wil by felt by elther sex for her In her recent aflice tion. Loreloy has been frozon up. Her strong- hold bas been beleaguered by a gilttering host of ice-blocks, affording no facilities whatsocver for ning the spell-hound waSfarer, anit therefore compelling her to forego her profes- sional voentions. ‘The German Government, however, alwayan stead fart mupocior of privs fieges, has attast tuken oficial cognizance of this unprovoked Invasion upon her anejent pres rogative, and has raised the sleye of hor rocky frstness by the agency of dynamite, Thus fre from restraint, Lorcley has rowimed business upon her old promises, where she continues to invite the patronage of Germany's irrepresalbly romantic youth, NEW YORK. The Democracy Hopelealy Split—Kolly and His Fricnds Moving for an Anti- Tilden State Convention and a Second Delegation to the Democratic Natton- al Convention. Dispatch to Cinetnnatt Gazette, New Your, Jan, 214—The Kelly Stato Committe held a public conference to-night at Albany, It was attended by prominent antl-Tilden Democrats from all parts of tho State. Special dispatches show that it was the beginning of a movement for on anutl- ‘Tilden State Convent and an anti-Tilden State delegation to the National Democratic Convention, The following resolutions were offered by David Dudley Field and adupted: “Resolved, That, 08 known by the Inst election, the Democratic party, if united, will be in. a majority in this State, “ Resolved, That the Democratle party in the State can only become united by avolding the causes which led to the division In the Inst election. “ Resolved, That we afflrm the undoubted right of Democrats to reject a nomination, made by a party convention, of a candidate who {s offensive to a constilerable body of the party; but we see nothing in the past or present elreumstances of the party in this State to prevent its uniting upon.a candidate fairly nominated who is acceptable to all sections of the party. “ Resolued, ‘That under the circumstances It fs necessary that a convention of the Deniocracy of the State shoul! be convened to appoint delegates to the next National Convention of the Democratic party; and the Exceutive Committee of the Stute Committes is directed to call such Convention,” John Kelly was approached by a friend after the council, who sald; “ I presume, Mr. Kelly, this meats a convention outside of that which will be held by whnt Is called the Te, sitar Democracy f the State.” elly responded: Yes, it means another convention. We shall not call it, of course, till after the announcement of the time when the National Convention Is to be held. [be Hevethe Democratle National Committee meet about the middle of February for that pur- Cs ose, ie notion acquaintance then approached and sald: es Kelly, this means Seymour, doesn’t “Tt means ony ‘ood man,’ The acquaintance persisted in hiscrogs- examination. He sald, “Would Seymour be agreeable?” ty Inughed and replied, “ Any good man would be agreeable.” Mr, Field was also subjected to a cross-ex- amination. A friend said to him, “ ‘These resolutions extend the ollve-branch, do thoy not? Mr. Field replied: “Each man must make his own interpretation of them.” Other delegutes said openly that they knew Tilden had the other organization, and they proposed to fight him openly, BESSEMER STEEL. To tha Editor of The Chicago Tribune, JorzEt, Tit, Jan. 2%—Tho Iron and stecl In- dustry is still in Its infhney in thls country, and Its present development is only an ear- nest of what it mny attain te. It ts quite the thing to sneer at this very vigorous infant and wonder how much ‘longer ft requires pop, but the best evidence of its being in its infancy Is afforded by the opposition, or free- trade, newspapers, from which I can quote such paragraphs as follow: “Only five-sixteenths ‘of the railroads in tho United States are Jnld with stec] rails.” “The use of steel rolls In place of fron will still further reduce the cost of transporta- tou.” “Tho quantity of ralls annually required is at least 1,500,000 tons, a quantity twico great- er than our domestic mills can produce.” “A diversity of industry 1s required If our country progresses in the right direction.” “A country that is purely agricultural cach yenr grows poorer and poorer.” Tue Trinuxe calls upon the Democratic party, like “one erying in the wilderness,” and asks it to play Moses long enough to lead the country out of the tariff! toils, Are we, then, to un- derstand that the sgriculturist, tho, rall- ronds, and the Republican party require that the tariff on Bessemer steel be abolished? Asa steel workingman and o Xepublican, I have looked upon the action of the Repub- Nican. party when they devised the tariff, which succeeded tho Democratle disunion, diorgantzing measure, the gradual repeal of tariff duties, beginuing in iB culminat- ing in the still further reduction of 1857, with Joss of revenue, Jack of employment, no wages. Then, asa fitting climax, ina lime of profound pence we find this Governmont borrowing money to meet [ts ordinary expenses, This was a fitting prelude 0 6% «Democratic _ rebellion by a Democratic party almost in entirety, and now the ableat and loading Republican newspaper in the United States Is culling upon the same party to save It by the samo methods as then. As I'am forced to look upon tho Democratic party's tarlif legislation as unpatriotic, of a plece with its other attempts upon tho Na- tion’s life and integrity, 80 1 am proud of the war measures of the Republican party upon tarlif matters, and think ft consistent with its other acts of patriotism, Nattonallsin, and enlightened progress, ‘The worklngmen of the North have been brought into the Repub- lican party, tanght the valuo of Nationality a8 opposed to all sectionalisins, taught yatriot- ism instead of namby.pamby sentimental- 1am between nations In which ono bestows disinterested favors upon another,~an inm- possible and unnatural thing,—and above all we look proudly upon the cra of protoction inaugurated by’ the Republican party In 1801 as the most prosperous in our history, not- withstanding the pravalones of a most dis- astrous, long-continned, internecine war, one of tho most expensive in nen and material ever known, and leaving politleal wounds ‘et unhealed; a commercial panic unique, Tong-sustatnedh and far-reuchin; beyond all precedent, Notwithstanding all this, and more, no such material progress wos ever made {n the history of the globe, and despite tho ill-omened croaks it 1s progressing Inu stilt greator ratio, and, unlike anything else in great social and industrial epochs of prog- ress, Jt is the Ibori le, the mnss, tho herd, who are the principal recipients of | tho bounty of tho protective balloy. Atuo thne In our or any other nation’s history have the people been ‘so well fod, so well clothed, so rel! housed, so well supplied with books, newspapers, and the othor modern appliances which make the unlettered hind {n_ those localities an hnpos stbity, and the peasant's too so longer can “gall the courtler’s give,” for tt hag abolished both, 1s this nothing for the workingman to thank the Republican party's protective National policy for? ks it nothing for a paper like Tuk Tripune to feel gratified for? Is lt not. component part of the party and the paper? Is not the glory of one micusurably bound up in and part of the other? Cun the party or paper, like a blind old giant, pull down the edifice with- out self destruction ? a Tf there attaches any credit to the Demo- eratle party for \ty desperate, but vain, at- tempts at Natlonal destruction in the pust or present, lot thom enjoy it and mako the most of itt If Jt ts nessessary to do anything for tho natlons of earth, let them come here_and shire with us all, and welcome; but 1 submit that we arc loo busy witli weighty matters of our own, too deeply con- cerning alt tuiman kind, to (urn to sentimont- aligns regardlny things we ore parctically, laborivusly, and honestly working out, not for ourselves alone, but ‘for wll time and all mankind. Does the Republican party wish the protective system abandoned? I think Tur Thwuxe will not make wuch heat- way in such anattempt. Tho call upon tho Democratic party will not be regarded a3 8 favorable diagnostic for that ylew of the case. A cortain flatulent party in Iowa by the name of Gear, Chict Magistrate of that bucolic State, calls upon his constituency, the Snators and Hepresentatives, to Inquire Into the tariff with a view of modifying or abolishing the tariff on Bessemer steel. To stich ashe a messnge fs nanfety-valve which relieves the dangerous tension Incident to a new-fledged official incumbent, or an emetic more properly. Lis Flatutency might have sald; “Ta a State whose prod- vets are In tho main agricultural, a3 are hose, of own, — anything whieh tends to furnish a home market for the surplus products of the sail, thereby even Yooldaneuyy In the least degree decreasing the necessity of transportipg her products to the seaboard, whleh should not be her mar- ket, is. a question of great interest to all. “Th view of thelr grenter.strangth and du- rabliity, which Jessen the cost of replace- iment, all the great trank rallway nes of tho country are adopting Bessemer raila, hence the huceaslty of the snanufoeturing her own supply of this great necessity, Jt also fol~ lows that as a home market is the best of all jnarkets, the cost of transportation to the seaboard and | Incident thereto are nll saved and transferred direct to the ngricult- urists’ pockets; that as Iowa has within her borders vast deposits of coal, iron, Mine, fire- clay, settanlory materials of all kinds, as yet almost untouched and capable of furnishing eniployment to the Large bart of our popula- tion who are periodically thrown out of em- ployment In the’ most inclement part of the year fn all agricultural countries, {t is manifestly her interest to foster and eneaurage by all reasonablemeans anything which relfeves the necessity of our being dependent tipona market 4,000 or 5,000 miles away, which relleves of the well- founded apprehension that any cause which at any time makes any other portion of tho world prodtce food cheaper than we can will compel us to accept a less than costprice or no priceat all. “ Another reason for our notdisturbing the existing state of things may be found in tho fact that ten firms in the United States have formed 1 combination for the manufacture of steel ralls (Bessemer. These ten tirms, to be sure, during the disastrous perlod called the panic, now happily past, were even more depressed thin raflroady, and far more than agriculturists, the proportion of bankrupteles being much greater than in cither class, and much loss being sustained by all of then but now, while farmers, rallroads, manu- facturers, are each and nll enjoying unexam- pled prosperity, let us do our best to, not {ne terrupt the general happiness. We have nu- inerous, abundant, and, thanks to the fran and steel {ndustry, su lendldly eqit ppedrallways, and the most industrious, skit, and intel- Neent agriculturists In the world, ‘Io round out the wants of both we want some Bessem- er-steel works in our inidst. ‘Phils will pre- vent any discussion onthe tarlil question, and we cannot but consider It wise legisine tion to enable the th: Teat elusses In mod- ern civilization—j.c.; the agricuiturist, the manufacturer, and the common carrier—to each share in the common prosperity, and whose Interests ure so bound up in’ exch other as to be nearly identical,—one cannot be fully prosperous without the other. It would, therefore, be well to instruct our Rep- resentatives and Senators in Congress to wheel Into line with the great Republican party, and do anything whiclr binds us more irmly into a great Nation, and rounds out the incomplete proportions of the greut Republic- an State of lown’! ‘This ls what Goy. Gear might have said; unfortunately he did not. Does Gov, Geur represent ‘the enllght- ened sentiment of the’ great State of tlowa? Is Iowa desirous of rowing each year poorer and poorer, sub- racting continually from tho unwilling, and giving nothing In return wnthl, exhausted, Nature refuses to even subsist the poverty- stricken dwellers in, that onee fertile State? <All this has oceurred and will oceur in pure- iy agricultural communitics just as surely 2s lestruction coines to tha natfon that lives by the sword, The memorial Intely addressed to Congress by Teadlng railrond managers throughout the country, asking, In substance, that the duty upon steel ralls be fixed at a speeliic rate not to exceed 310 per tan, sounds most strange when contrasted with a memorial addressed to tho snine body upon the same subject by the sume memorinlists nine years ago. Said memorial reads as follows: “ Tnedfately before the construction of the first steel-rall “mill {n this country, foreign inakers charged S140 per ton (canul to $25 currency) for steel rills, As <Amorican works were built, foreign skilled Inbor in- troduced, home labor instructed, and demes- tle frong, cInys, ganisters, and spiegel (after many trials), found. to’ produce excellent ralls, the price of the foreign article was Tadually lowered until it now stands at less than $9 per ton, gold, or $06.83 currency, Now that several millions. have been ex pended fn machinery, furnaces, and experl- ments In perfecting the process of manufact- ure in thls country, and numbers of onr own eltizens are dependent upon it for Support, the busitiess is threatened with aunihilation by the presence of Foglish ond Prussian makers, We, a3 users of steel rails, and transporters of food and imaterlals for Atmerlean manufacturers ana thelr numerous employés. and skilled Jaborers, do not desire to be dependent exelualvely upon the foreign supply, and, therefore, join in asking that, instead of the present ad yalorum duty, aspecific duty of two cents per hundred bo placed upon this article,” The duty was fixed atonecentanda quarier per pound, and is su to-day, Befure that the duty was 45 per cent ad valorem. | Tie Trinune's statement regarding the ayemze pele for the elght years previous to 1871 D cing £09 per ton, and tho average duty 801,05 erton, Igtrue as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. In fuet, wo do nut want | to know of averages at all; they are usually sophisms in thetr results; with an appear ance of falrnoss they cover up an essential truth, What !s wanted, rather, are the ex- tromes,—then the average Js easily obtaned, —also the causes producing the extremes, We elabin’that Ameriean competition brought down steel rails to the present low price, and that the present high prices were not caused by a combination of ateet manufacturers, but by causes beyond their control, and the same are now operiting the sume way upon Ena- glish markes, go that rails cannot be hought abroad at any such rate ag claimed, We claim that Aniericun rails are just a3 good ns nro foreign ratls, aud any appearances to the contrary are deceptive or explained casily by practical steel-workers, In concluding this necessarily long letter wo express both alone and a bellet that the Republlean, party has uo oceuslon to be ashamed of or to disown the protective policy; that the railroads nor*the farmers have no one thing to so develop amb bulld up themselves as domestic mannfactides; an as for protective duties belug a burden, the proof ix not wanting that itis no-burden, justly, we do not believe that Tie ‘Teinune antagonizes the great manufacturing Inter- est of tha Northwest, yot nits infancy, and hope that such a recognized poweras THe Tupuxe will be found as usual on the side of lubor. Frank Freeman, Opposed to-Small Notcs—Memortal of the New York Bulllon Club to Cone groans. New_Yonx, Jan, 20, 1830.—Y0 tha Senate and House of ie resentatlves ; Your pe- Utioners, the Bullton Club, an association representing ao vit) an Industrinl interest of tho country as its production of the money metals, would Feapec! fully but urgently rop- resent to your honorable body that, under the present monetary systein, flere Is no aid cannot be, 4m general practival use o1 specie money in the country, such as was contemplated by the framers of the Constl- tution of the United States, Under our presunt system, wholly reversing the practice of such commercial nations as Great Britain, France, and Germany, who are not producers of the money metals, we who aro the chief producors of gold and silver in the world, virtually coln all the gold wo produce, together with that which wo — \m- both into pisces of the denomination of $20, wholly unsuited for the currency pur- parca of the people, and forcing the vaat ro- ail transactions of our country to be carriod on nevessarily In. paper manoy (in part not legabtenstery io Nutional-bank notes, and the other part of disputed legal tendoraia) of the denominations of $1, $3, $5, and S10bills, Therefore, your petitioners would respect- fully urge upon your honorable body the necessity for restricting from further clreu- Intion ull emissions of paper money below the denomination of $20, with such 4 colnage of gold and silver hereafter at the several mints of tho United States that, Jn Hou of the withdrawn && and $10 bills, a gold coluage of (hose denominations with quarter exgles ny ie inte elreulition, and silver money take 6 phice reco) nized for it in the Constitu- tion, The f{lne, aa your petitioners delleve, is proplllous for wise legivlu- dation on this subject. In addition to the large amount of gold and sliver in the country on the Ist of January last, when resumption took place, wo have since pre dueett “neurly $80.0 oud of gold and silver, oud have dinporled = from Europe about the sue amount, ‘Mls sum of bulilan has, so fur, not been utilized in our currency, but Hed, under our system, eousarlly inert in the 'Troasury vaulis, in banks, and Jn private safe deposit companies. We not wish to ex- press any opluion touching the desirability of expanding or contracting the paper cur rency of the country, nor havo we any fssue to make as to the wisdom or policy of retain- ing the legal-tender power of the so-called reenbackss butif it is possible to induce the National banks to hold their reserves {it coin Instead of in Treasury notes, an dition, to withdraw the small bills, we hopa that Congress in its wisdoin will so legislate, and thus give our people an op ortinity ta have a specle currency, for wh eh the mines of the country are annually supplying an abundance of thea money metals, F And your petitioners will ever pray. . G. Crony, Secretary. DEATH IN SILESIA. Fearful Mavages of Hunger-Typhnse— Lack of Clothing and Fuci—Dying in Despair—Work of the Governmont, Such asevore winter as that under which the populations of Silesia, Enst and West Prussia, and the Duchy of Posen hava been suffering for moro than a month past, has not been experienced in North- Eastern Europe since the year 1812, It has come like a doont upon the poor people after along spell of “bad times,” and an almost total failure of the potatocrop, upon which the pensantry of. these comparatively speaking sterile regions malnly depend for thelr winter sustenance. The reports reaching the German Home Office from {ts administrative and medical officials respecting the condition of the laboring clngses teem with heartrending detalls of atarvation, hunger-typhius, and death by ex- posure to cold, brought on through lack of necessary clothing and fuel. We read of parents all but naked in wretched empty rooms forlorn of fire, the corpses of thelr children, victims of typhus, lying uncovered. on the fldor, with no means left to them of obtaining the rudest coffin for the dead or tha conraest morsel of food for the living. We hear of women, driven to despair, lyIng down deliberately in the stow to die, in order to put an end to thelr fut. .er- able misery. ‘The other day a whole tribe of gypsies was found frozen to death In a wood near Rybulk, Upper Silesin. Men, women, and chfldren’ had huddled close together In the snow, hoping to keep the vital spark allght by common contiguity, but they wera all frozen stiff and stark and covered by several inches of snow when discovered by & gendarme performing his rounds on the morning In question. Large quantities of incal have been distributed by the State au- thoritles throughout the Ratibor country and in the Olsan and Thurze districts, whero famine and sickness have swept away vast numbers of the inhabitants, but the general distress throughout Germany's eastern prov> inees appears bythe Intest accounts to be undhininished in acuteness, and threatens to depopulate territories already too sparsely inhabited, The fi dependence Belge gives the follow- jog particty lars of the condition of the people in Upper Sllesins “All the manifactories are closed in the District of Lubretz, com- munications by railway are discontinued, aud any other means of transport are toa diMeult, The exportation of lime, which Is the principal resource of this part of the country, Is now redyced to noth- ing. ‘The excessive wet weathor which pregeded the present severe winter has added tho great diMeuitles of the Inhabltants, whose situation {s generally precarions. ‘The latter have nothing to protect then from the Inclemency of the weather but huts with thatched roofs, the walls of which are simply of mud, and often the common room of th family is only’ separated from the stable by a thin ‘partition. he fissures in the walls, which are often filled up by the Fromthor wild plants, principally brooin, are this year with: out this protection. The poor peasants have seareely anything to eat, the produce of tha Jand belng made rotten by the wet or frozen, and the people are lying liternlly of cold. Tt 4s true that both tho State and the Provinetal authorities, foresecing this state of things ng almost Inevitable, have taken measures to remedy It, Bestdes the loans contracted by the local authorities, with the authority of the Governinent, amounting to about a mulliion of maria, the State in November add- vd 800,000 marks to provide food for the most necessiious, The provincial authorities hava ven 40,000 mark®, but tho misery and want, it appears, farexceed whnt wns expected, and dn certain Milloges where there is-no pub- Ile school the chiliren may be seen trotting to the nest village barefoot in the snow, The southern district Js in the greatest distress. It is calculated thatin fourteen administra- tive districts it Is necessary to provide 110,- 000 sacks of potatoes and a proportionate anantity of other provisions to prevent tho people dylug of hunger.” NEW PATENTS. Spectal Dispatch to Ths Chicago Tribune. Waaiinaton, D, C., Jan. 23.—Following iy allst of patents Issued to the inventors of THinols, Wisconsin, Michignn, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, and Nebraska during the past week: : atatxo1s. Tf, D. Adel, Mansfeld, stirrup. ' 8, Cornfield, Chicago, ncedle-cylinder or bed of knitting-machinos. f W.S. Davis, Highland Park, nolscless slate- rune, 0, Dup)easia, Chicago, exerelsing-machine, J, J, Hanlon, Chicago, bookbinding. oy, eghert, Oswego, tonguo-supporter for vehicles. D,C, Owon, La Prairlo, coupling-joint for cul- tivator-tecth. J. Plerpont, Bushnell, combined riding and walking vultivator. ¥ ith, Bloomington, dust-soparator for G. 7. Sinith, flour-nills. A. Toollner. Moline, marine transhipment and overland transportation. J. Wilkinson, Harvani, vontilating and cool- ing dairies (roissio). |. Yoch, West Belleville, portablo and road en glue (roissuc). + WISCONSIN. J, H. Yates, Sharon, nasal inhaler, MICHIGAN. rH B. Bollngor, Jackson, dovico for operating! urns, ‘q'. E, Church, Charlotte, how-and-arrow rack. &. F, Hodgo, Detralt, pulyorizing and separat- ig quartz, eto, (reissuo). VW. 1. Marsh, Northvillo, whifotree-guard, MINNESOTA. J, Wampach, Shakupre, fifth wheol. * TOWA. E, Bt ator, Slgournoy, car-ooupling. J. Wuish & Dutot, Newton, barbe fenco, Loon, automatic bruke for 2 INDIANA. G. W. Anderson, Elizabethtown, side-vatvefor stcani-engines, . HH. Do Wolf, Indianapolis, portable balcony. J, Oliver, South Bend, plow-point. T. Beantlin, Ryvansville, ice-cream froezer, . P. I, wagons, M. Sulgrove, Indianepolis, brocobing-atay * for harncess. NERRASKA, No Nabraska patents during the woek, —<——————__—_— Customs. Differ. Detruit Free Press. One could sce Unt ho ‘fd a grievance ot eet ue. and How {hs . omnes perridore and pretty soon he mot u friond ant 4 ss wit be*angod If L know what to muke of this Diarsted country?" . * What's the matter with our great and glori+ ous Americar” “Hin Hi sends mo ‘all ten pounds of coffeo ut the hend of the yoap ass Preaont,, “Whilo hover ‘ere in this frozen-up coun! my xrocer drinks the wine himsolf, blast, HA hoyes! und sends mo a statement showing thas Tin howing ‘Im 9 balance of $15 hon account ‘What sort of » wuy bia that to hincourage me t9 run up a bill there bin 15801" —————— Bad Condition of Turkish Soldiers, A melancholy. pichire fs drawn by tho core respondent of § Vienna paper of the condition of tho Turkish army in Albania, pegging. ho says, is no longer regarded by the Turkish sole dior us a disgrace, und the streeta of Janiua are full of soldiers who stretch out thelr bands to He Part He vreuredt cere eT nu they attack the an om 4 thelr yuluablog, The ‘Durkiah soldiors aro, in- wed, 80 much in want of woney, owing to thelr not having rucolved any pay fur more than three aid thut thoy atten poll steele I se sue nillltary commandan' ound (f necessary issuo awoorea strictly forbidding this prac under severe pensitics, when discovered. ty a ee The Onelda Community. Bince the clergymen's agitation against the “inixed marriage” system of tho Onelda Com- munity, twenty weddings have taken place ‘These, with twenty-five couples that had there. becoine members after wedlock, maky forty-five married couples, The population of the cone munity ts $9, Afty-voven of whom are childron under lo, and twenty-six young pbople undor 2. Onomember fs over ago, Ove fears 0! over 8), twonty-six over 70, ‘ntty-sevon over 00, ninety-soven over 60, 143 over 40, 191 over & aud 216 ovor 20. q os Guinness, New York Sun. A corrospondont writes us that Bir Arthur Guinnvss wus recently incorrectly described tn this column ag “the great Dublin porter-brows er.” Within the pust yoar Bir Arthur has sold fag net hate tree utes et Sa an no longer & enoiul fountain of guld to bin, =