Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1880, Page 12

12 : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. Death of the Duc de Gramont and of Jules Favre. “Tmo, Adam's Fancy-Dress Ball—Faint Signs of a “Season,” ‘ Execution of Preyosty the Assasin—: Charles Lumb in French Dress. Amusements—A Curfous Lawsuit—Now Pianists and New Plays—Adolina Patti, Hpectat Correspondence of The Chtcaga Tribune, Pais, Jan, 20.—Slowly but steadily tho num- ber of the criminal statesmen and politicians who glittered during the eighteen years of hol- Jow splendor enjoyed by the Second Empire has dininished. De Morny is long alneo dead. Satnt Arnaud fs gone to his account, with many more,—an necount thelr wretehed souls may welt have teenbted at rendering. But Rauber Bull survives; Paul de Cagsagnue ts living: Cane robert still ndarns tho army; Emile Olivier, “the: man of the Ught heart,” {6 not yet suppressed or forgotten; and, till a few days alee, THE DUO DR GRAMONT, who declared war against the Prussinusten years nyo, lived and breathed obscurely. He ls gone, too, though, now; nud the frivolous chronicles of the Paris papers have been picking him to pieces already In the most. ‘artiste asblon, ‘Well, be deserved ft all, The late Duke wns 0 man unstendy in his frlendstips, false to hie early altegiinee, und fatal to his country, Ie ts a Joss possibly to his own relations, but no loss certalnly to France: pnd the best one can say of bhn ts, that he was not altogethor worthy heap- ing 89 mueh contumely upon. In his early youth, however, he gave much hope, and seemed destined to hil things. His paronts, the Due and Duchcas de Guicho, were perhaps: tho most brilllant and handsome couple at the Court of Charles X. He himself was the Triend aud playfellow of the young Due de Bordeaux, better known to the world since 1a the Comte do Chambord. So great was the af+ fection the Prince bore him that on one cecn- slon, after the two boys (who were almost of the enme age) hud been confirmed together, tho Due de Bordeaux broke a plece of gold in two, and gave bult to ttle Agenor de Gramont, bidding him keep Itas a pledgo of cternni friendship. Whether he kept itlong, he best could have told us hitnself; at. any rate, he was not long faithful to his princo- ly companion. Though ho did not break with him openly, hodld not serupto elther to necept tho post of Ambussador at the Court of Vienna when ft was offered him ty Napoleon IIL, or to take office with Emile Olivier when that doubte- deuling turneont threw In his lot-with the usurper, and attempted to lay the foundation of tho Liberal Finplre. Agenor, Due de Gramont, becnine Minister of Foreign Aifalrs, and tn [870 had tho terrible misfortune (which npparently then troubled film notimuch more than the ight hearted Ollivier) of . HURGING DEFIANCE AT THE GERMAN FOE, When disasters crowded upon France, Ayenor Qnd a number of other mischievous medloerities tsappeared fora whlle—swept away like chull in the first rush of popular detesta- thon. But he could not rest in hls obscurity, Tike Oltlvler, he was tore * mented “by tho devil of self-consclous Not long since he published a yolusne which he hoped would bave fustiied hin und brought: ehis_ personality into prominence, Unfortumiute- Jy, nobody here would take him or his book seriously; and aAgenor, Dug de Gramont, was snuffed out, politically spenking, by the public indiiference. He dicd two days buck, aged G1, He married a Scotch lady, of the clan MacKinnon, . by whom he had sovernl children, The eldest son, who till Saturday was known asthe Dug de Quiche (not. Guise, as he has been erroncously: called), 9 young Lieutenant of bussars, now in barracka ut'Melun, Jt may be remembered that this young officer married a Mile, Hothsehtld,— Not a little to the scandal of the orthodax Ie. Drowes, and somewhat fo the astonishment of In- avcent Christlins, The present Due de Guicho Jan baby 3 months old. One of tie boldost und stendlest enomiesof the ‘Euplire, JULES FAVRE, ho man whose “not _ 1 stone, not an inch" hag beromo historical, died last aight at Versailles, aged Ti years. ‘Tho tnst tine T kaw him was ata tecture of Father Hyxelnthe's, delivered at the cinjue. Julea Favre ent fn the stalls, with dJndy,—the very one about whom thero was so much talk a year orgo after tho war, Ho was looking dreadfully old and eareworn, ast the battle of life hud been & good deal too much for him, and he was nnxlous to lay the burden dawn quietly, and sink as quietly Into the ever. lasting sllonce, His fave wis gray und wi ered, Always rather long, $f then tool ghastly, ‘Tho cheekbones seemed to protrude. ‘unniturally, and the gray hair above crowned oue of the suddest faces dyer T set eyes upon, Sules Fayre was a sentimentallst, but he was not udishonest one; at haut sol Judge him. That. eeandal 1 have already alluded to broke hin down. Ho had shunned the ginro of publicity: ever since; nad though he was a Senator, ho had. Fearecly spoken on public affairs forthe last five yeurs. By-the-by, youn over remark how many “Jules hive grown famons in France (utterly? Jules Janin, Jules Michelet, Jules Fayre, Jules Simon, Jules Fe y and dulus Greys: form 2 goodly half-dozen ulrendly: and eould aunne more Hf Thad thne to rnek my brain a hit. Tut alt this is very serious, There nre lyhter hugs to talk of, MME, ADAM'S FANOY-DRERA WALTy, for instaneo, Opinions may ditfer as fo Tull- ette Tannber’s” literary talent nud philogaphle profundity, but Paris [8 perfectly sure about the cvallty of her personal churm ‘and orlginullty. Su be invited to Mine, Adam's ia no mean dly- Wnctlon, us tines go. Tad she vontented alt who would have Uked to attend Saturday's ball, dhu would hive hid to fasue ful ten thousand mvitations, ‘There tne not been stich a Lull tere wince the fumous fete given by M. Tent puselt, ‘Pho Gite of Republlean Parts and @ pick of tho forelgn colony were pre: iiny of the costttines warn word extre sentualic nnd effective, “Jullette Lumber," tha Yostess, was dressed us a Sorecress, and {this sostume-recoived her guests with exqulslt. taut and hospitality, Bho had na a body-guurd of sonora group of Turks and Indlins, while at aer fect squutted three Negrocs—who were 10 ather than the brothers Calinann-Levy, the great. publishers and M. Holnaeh. At about 2 in ng Inurmng the costuined puesta were formed nto orderly groups, and there was u grand “march past” and review by Sime, Adam. An wtaich group reached her, a halt waa made, while 4 gentleman, disgulacd naan Engtlte ‘oliver, rend an apy raprints “Pl TAM—MOrS ar leks mitty—on behilf of the talrdoreeress, Atnongat he more remarkable groups were those of TUE AMERICAN COLONY. fehtch was Introduced by M. Beran), of Alsace, ily, Spain, urkey, and Olympus, The dricle hazed a prophetio wlih when the American group was prevented,—dechiring tut the union between France and tho Western Cone Unent woukl soon be complote, thanks to tho pencefitl bond of the Atliutic’ cable. Shortly After this amusing pirt of the fOte, some om Motion was enused by the appearance of 0 port = man, who went about from one gucet to anather, Watribating coplea of the Voltatre, contalning a ol report of tho whole ‘fete up to nit ok Me—un hour and the distribution. Supper and after supper thore wag ., At was clogs upon 7 ere the hist guests departed from thu pleasant salons of the Boule» vurd Polgsonnitre, OTHER FRSTIVITIES, Closo on tho heels of Mine, Adam's ball camo. O brilliant peception at Einile do Girardin's Wace in the Rue ln Peyrouse, ‘Tho next Repub- Houn socal festival Wil probulily be at the Elyste. You sco thore ure at length faint signs ofa Season" in Paris. None too goon, Nut tho a, previous to lowed, ut Git tn Jenst serfous danger the Ropublie hus to * guard aint ia uy dunger of Doring people. It has been n yood deal ton solomn und prosy hitherto, Mut for tho ree ception glycn in 1873 to the Shab of Persin, and. tor the exhibition {ites of 1878 tho Inst decade would have had vory few glimpses ot popular or even oilicial morryunnking to set against ‘wany months of dull monotony, Prevost, the sergent-de-villo who was ro- cently found guilty and sentenced to death for a doubte assasinution, or rather too ingle agsaa- uations, committed ‘with peculiar and dellber- ate villalny, was QUILLOTINED AT LA ROQUETTR carly on Bonday morning, It 4s most unusual for executions to take hi 8 on Mondays, aud probubly that duy was fixed upon in the exe pectution that there would be no crowd to wit- edd the lugubrious eoremony, The authorities ave not forgotten the atrocious seenes that nt tended the execution of Barré and Loblez, and they ure quite detertuined there shall be no rop- otition of them If they cnn help it, However, Vhere was us large “a gathering of human vultures in the neighborhood of La Roquette this tine us ever; only this tla thy polleo and the troops mi ut delvo them away, with a a runt att of diticulty, No persona but a fow ottielals aud the Journalists were allowed to break throu an Shu qflitury cordon that surrounded tho seaf> Toh. But, even. su, fully 200: people witnessed the trigeay. At balf-puat 6, Provost, who bad rown aged aud wlnost unrecognizable from orror aud anxicty whilo tn prison, wus roused poonutite slumber, and told to prepare himself forthe end, He mude no redlatunce. At the Tout of the scaffold be was aeked whethor ho hud nothing to confess. “No” he answered; “the fu faults” he “bad beew condumned for Were thy oly once hu had to confess, A few mainutes after, stern juytlee, represented by, the new “executor ut high works,” Delbler, put this aiwat cald-biveded scoundrel out of this world micet hit Tho free fata” hint diatant con- nection with the murder of two fellow-crentures jane his inistresa), whom he subsequently cut up nto small pleees and disposed of, THE PROMIAND TRANSLATION OF CHARLES DAMU made its appenranee on the Paris bookstalla Inat week. ‘Tho translator is M, Depret, who seems ta have had some alight personal nce quulntanca with the fittattalio humorist. ‘That fas not provented hin from dumnlng poor Charles with faint praise, nian introductory: yon Humor and Charles Lamb Grhom ho tukes as on typlent English humorist), he re- furcs to admit that his hero had wt right to bo ened a genius, thouh ko readily acknowl: anythhy abort of this, Tho pul lin translations nro far from | com ete. A gcore or ro only of the Tesaya Hignre in it, and same of the finest, most whim aleal, and most pathetic are omitted. | The in- compurablo dissertation on “ Ronst Pig" is abe rent. Tho“ Superammunted Man” fs exehuled, with " Dream-Children”” nud several caually wopnlar, However, it fs something that so much wv honor even his beon grunted to Astounding though Jt sound, isis the first attempt ont dressing = the qiaint, and kindly essayist up it French’ clothes. Wut for one or two rather fanetful notices of him by Phitnrete, Chasics and others, the very mime of “Ella” would hive been unknown tilt M. Deprot condeseended to piblish this volume, In tho Nouvelle Nerve of the Toth Inat. there Is a rather tuteresting pnper, from the pen of M. Magveras, on “FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES.” ‘The writer takes ap his stand decidedly with the bellevers In Free ‘Traue, and stows, convinehigly. enough, by the ald of statistics, that the fuct of tho present Amertean prosperity having hs pened to cuinelde with the ndoption of Pro ton is in no way anargtiment agntust Fre ‘Trade. But he dees more; and herein docs thing very ngrecable to Ti ropean renders, MWe shows, by figures, that. Europe hus no acension to be warmed at Ameri tan industrial compotition yet awhile, Of the total oxports made. by the States of Burope, fully & per ceut, If not more, Is, aceording to M, Masserus, raw or natura produce,—corn, cot- ton, meut, butter, and su on. Military spectacle, once so favorit a form of thentricd! entertuliinent in Paris, has of Inte yeirs been rither slighted. It ts, however, to be given imothor chance of regaining Ite hold on the popular iifections soon. A grand mill. tary dram, entitled “TUINNR,'" fs in active preparation utthe Ambigu, Marvels are promised in the way of processions, battle- Fcenes, mul costumes. Real cannon are to be fired off in the Just uct. (may I not be there to hear ft); and it Agand effect will be Night March” of the French army, Peculiar utten- tlon is to be given the soldiers’ untformss and a very Interesting historic revival may bo ex. peuted, J tinderstand, though T would not care ty vouch for ft, that one single untfurm [s to cost 2,000 franes, ‘This a tinging money out of tho window, and in the wrong direction, ecr= tainly, And yet Henel Chibrillnt should know whut he Is about, ‘ ‘Talking vf the modern tendeniy to lavish hinge sume On sApectucie, the manigerof the Opera, M. Vancorbell, 44 belng mnelt carped at and eriticlsed. It wasn panne reproach to the lato manager, M. Lntanzier, that he squandered his subsidy dn scenery and dresses, fisted of paying for’ guod singers and musictins. If this wis tho worst, t would not bo of great conua- Both tho munugers, and all tho French, must bo repronched for WILLEULLY ALTEMING THE MASTERIIECES played ut thelr Theatres, “Don Juan,” ts it ts given at the Paris Opera, is a very different thing from the work Mozart wrote, ("La Flute Enebuntée” now being played at the Operi Comite, fs not the exact and original * Zauber> Note,” though It 1s more lke it than tho sitly Arrangement by which, under the name of “Les Myatercs d'Isis,” this detightfal. work was first jutroduced to - Paris, It ia ree orted that) | miistenl —onthusinst here, indignint ont the liberties tnken with “Don dunn’? at the Opera, {3 to bring a netion agilust M. Vancorbesl, in which he will eluin heavy damages. Ido uot see how, or on What grounds, he can clan dumages,—unless ho bo n descendant of Mozart’s~—-but 1 do heart Wy sympathize with him in his righteous wrath. ilere fa a min who would have been ufter Hee- tor Beriloz’s own heart! “Paul et Virginie” ts bringing 4,000 francs n night jute the treasury of the Opera Populaire, where M, Duprit’s inuch talked of peru," Pe- trarque," Is inactive rehearsal. This same theatre, trinsformed for the ocexaion inte tn Atulinn Opern, is to witness the rentrée of ADELINA PATTI very shortly, ‘The {tallan seuson is to begin.on the ith of Februnry, and the diva is expected here on the 2d or 4a Feliclen David's * Desert " Waa the uttraction on Sunday at the Concert Populaire,—at whieh, by they Tbhvard « clover rendering of Mendelssohn's Plano Concerto in C.by un extremely Juventio Indy “named Mile, Jevbers, Thu" young urtist (who cnn- not be more “than Wor 1) hus Plenty of execution and feella, dnc of course haa yery litthe power, Nevertheless, her Buveess war decided, A few nights before, T Ind the pleasure oF hearing two ofber remark- ably-talented Indy phinists—Miss Luvinls O'Brien urylher slater, Miss Augusta O'Brien—both pu- if a of that most churming composer, Stephen feller, whe builds high hopes upon them, Vhey are likely to be brought soon nt the ~Lendon concerts, an sbould make tholr murk, Stephen feller, by= tho-wny, bis dedicated hls lust’ compusition— A short sonnta or sunatina—to Miss Luyinla O'Brien. Lecocg’s opuretia, Fleur de hé,"” Ig to be mounted again at the Bouffes, T see. Albert: Wolt!'s anualng review, © Paris on Actions,” Is drawing crowded houses ut tho litte Nouvenute’s; and, lastly, Jules Cliretie's now drama, “Le Beau Seleugnne,” has been wivon with success nt tho Chutelut. Hanuy Meurzen, a JIM. Leing the remarks of « Western Con, atranger in Washington., dimt That's hima dim Blaine, Of Matnol Dye never heur iidw, inthe year Of ulghtcen-vlghty, Jim stoud "fought ‘em il— Fought till he made ‘ein full By ne blows welghty? fh out aman to a Blot . Sirunger, luk y'ere, enous ie d ent political ring ‘To try tu steal a States ut, stranger, you May ub nie ft two If that aln’t what they tried to do Mos? r ‘Tho folks ts aquar, Au don't travel ut no but rite, But, yer sew, . or dim, Buy tho'r gl ww tho'r glim An’ know'd thelr trioka; Av! he gin thut bead of bisa thump, An sot bls brains to werk ona Jump, AAW spollt tho tx, Eb? Bhuney Why, stranger, ho's all bralnt Braln’s his What's what It 1s, ‘That's the ring! dtwas ou bly thing Strunger, you're rlyht! An’, suyl come up to night: an ace blin— Boo Jin, tranger, Jin uln't proud, 6 President; an’ he knows in 9 crowd When a tun's white, Thit'e Of Matnad That's hin ian —Rockland (Me,) Courter, a ‘Che Irish Land Laws and American Sympathy. Detroit Part, * Through a Detroit ueduuintance of Dir. Mare ‘Yos"s Wo have reculved: the fullowing comimuni+ dation from that fontenian, who ls & prominent Quaker It Irelands + Gianae, Waterford, Ireland, 24 fobruary.-- Lhavp been surprised to see umonyst the telo- ee tolling of Mr. Parnell's reception in miericn tho atutoment that some Atorican papers profess to doubt the propriety of Amore jens encouraging, by tholr sympathy, an nyita tion pgatnst tho laws of 4 ‘friendly hation.' 1 think it isu safe rute that when tha outecrlos made by, or on behalf of, any nation, or part of anation, against fits rules become a permanent seandnl tothe vulvilizution of tho uge, itis not Only the right but the duty of othor nations, by feral advice, or moral prossure, or, if need ‘bo, dn the eugo of great oppression,—such ag that of Turkey over Greocu sixty yeurs ngo— by furco, to do all mL they cin to Dring whout amore healthy condition of ulfairs, and one more likely to result Sw lastlng peace for thy word. England hus goted on this rule for more than 200 yenrs, frum Cromwell's protest agulnst the persecutions of the Wuldonses in Piedmont, to the auti-dlavery nudtation, kept up ne q Eeituly Bid devise nt Le at twenty yOers ago in gympu with tho American balttonista., To ‘those ri Ingtunces may be added the remonastrances ud dreaded by to British to the ‘Turkish Govern. ment Seta its phelts Jota, aol of o eoualely ue @ poor seboolituster who kat trangluted part of the Hiblo jnta the Turkish lunguage. Uoniw- quently Fasting will have no Just grounds of comphint ff othar nattons follow her awn exume ple. Ag Englishinen were within tholr righta In proforsing synipadhy with Garrison in hls pro- testa mado on both sides of the Atlantic agulust American slavery, 6o will Aimericuns and Cang+ (ung be within thelr Tiabts {ne naslating Parnell {a currying on by all Legitinate means his aglta Hon agulust the Beitigh land laws us naw vaforeed, in Ireland. Aw slavery in the United States stood condemped as iatecandal to the wholy clyiized World beenuse of the horror it Involved, so do the British tand laws in Ireland outrage clvilza- tlon by the state of-chronly semt-starvution. In Which they tend to keep thy poorer classes ju aio, in witch hundreds of thonsnnds of tio sib jects of the wealthiest Government in the wort starved to death, whilst abundance of food w hetng: aie from thelr countrys and that to-day, uring which women hive been stabbed, knocked down with tho butt, cnds of muskets, and trampied on by tho pollee for realating an attempt to serve cjoctments on tenaita who proe fer reslatanee to the hv, to starvation or the poorhouse, ‘Tho Amerlean people wil Tam sure, know better thin to accept the Judgment of those who say they have ne right to express: an optnton on tho existence of such an unhuppy tate of amalre In Tretand, beenuse ft isnt friend- ly nation’ that perslate in governing her in detl- Anee of the expressed wishes of ao mase if her Inhabitanta. Eoausp IARVe —$——————— JIM KEE Attn Speculations in Gratin and Produce =eperted envy Loxscs—How He Operates in Stockn. “Gath's” New York Latter, to Uineinnatt Knquirer, 1t is generally belleved in New York that Janes 2, Keene, the stock speeutator, has been a loser of $2,500,000 In wheat and produce {Investments In the West, Ile was one of the first men among the Wall-street: speculators to find anew avenue for gambling tn grain and produce certificates. You know how the scheme is worked, There ts a large commission produce house in Chicago with a resident agent in New York, just oppostt the Stock-Exchange. You go into this ugent’s office and give him an or- der for 1,000,000 pounds of pork anc 2,000,000 bushels of grain, to be bought at the current price, You prt up a certain amount of mars Bin, say $1,000 to. $5,000 on His purehuse, so nsto seeure your broker and his principal aumunst no loss on the purchase, aud guarantea thelr commlsstons, whieh ure, perhaps, one- fourth of 1 per cent. You ny your whent, perhaps, at SI a Antshel and your pork at seven cents 2 pond, The New York broker at once televaphs go to make the purehase, and in the vourse of two or three hours along contes 0 certificate hy telegraph that the purchase has been made and les subject to your order, ‘Then you stand off and watch the Chiengo quotations, — Meanwhile you go aroun amon your friends and tell them, ts a Kpecial paint of Information, that there is very little wheat In Chiengo, and se scely, Any pork to i} of, and that they are the best things tn the country to Invest In, as there Is certain to beatise. Through whatever agencies you control, you spread the report of an glaritis searelty of wheat and pork in the West, and express the belief that perhaps after a while the human race will have to chow fits knuck- les. The grentest Interest 1s awakened among sausige-men, and people ju murket look livid over their lard, Ino this) way, and from natural causes, and perhaps from a frenk of the market, wheat gocs up 10 cents a bushel and pork one eent to two cents 0 pound, Now, if you enn by telegraph order the sale of the whole of your produce, you have got_on a rise of 10 cents, with a pure chase of 2,000,000 bushels, a profit of $200,000 on your gral, and with arise of two cents on 1,000,000 pounds of pork, 1 profit of $20,- 000 on your pork. Paying one-fourth of 1 per cent to the broker, hie jnkes $450 out of yon, besides the cost of telegraphing. But, on the other hand, suppose that your 2,000,000 bushels of wheat fell to 90 eents in- stead of golng up to $1.10, and that your pork dropped to five cents Instead of golnz uptonine. ‘Phen you will be loser to the atiount of $220,000 on the twe investinents, ntul, of course, your broker comes forward and says: Lwant more margin from you,” and if you don’t put lt up he will contisente what money you hive left In iis hans, aud, | perhaps, sue you for the bulunce after he has gal out, or says he hug sold out, what you jouutht, Now, Mr. Keene, it {a understoad, did this very thing on a tremendous scale, aud for sone thie with o cortaln fortitude or ob- atinacy of nature he assisted to hold up the prices, so that large numbers of vessels were ying at the wharves In New York anwilllng or unable to loud up) with grain and pro- visions ut the artificial prices maintained by Just such spectators, But there was a power xtre to sell and to ship at lower rates, conse- quent upon the enormous harvests and herds, and it was out of the power of 2 single man, or even a combination of men, to keep the prices from slipping down, so that atlast Mr. Keene had to. sell out his great magazines of wheat, pork, ete, at huge round loss, and the only persons who hit made much, if anything, by his process, were those who closed thelr spect ation at the sllehtest possible rise of prices. “ut, on some accounts this kind of specu- jution 1s more desirable than raflrond stocks or corporation bonds. A good geographer nud statistlelan might be able to know, ap- proximately, the correct relation between the supply of food In the Nortliwest and the ex- pected conguinption in Europe and our East, eb even there, us in the ease of the rail- roads, the powerful magnates, such 25 the elevator men and the railroad nen, might manlpulate prices, Mr, James Keene, though he has been suc- cessful here, has, on the whole, taken no higher rank than that of an, individual look Ing for money, He has not connected him- self, Ike Gould, with any mnateriul or con striictive scheme, norassisted to give stability to real things, Tis domain is bounded by What he cut make, elther buying or selling, White he has almost. a hypochondrine tem- perament, ho ls yet disposed frequently to bo i bull, and stake hovnlsonely on better {hines and results, He can hardly be sald to bo pe pulur in New York. its iost recent am- bition Is on the social line, and tatterds soma amusemont to observers. LC heard a lot of young chaps, a few nights ago, relating, eor- fectly or lucorrectly, Keene's manner of In- structing his brokers “Mr, Bacock 2? “Yes, Mr, Keene,” says tho broker, rub- bing his palms together like a truly good man, En Tigcoek, fo and buy me 5,000 shares of Erie “Yes, Mr. Keene,” rubbing his hands over each other meantime in the most mealy man- cher, sj Thoms, £0 out and buy me 5,000 Erle, shires of Ar 22, In Tost and melancholy way, falls 8 moment Into contemplation, and then, for, ett how niuch thne ling elapsed, says? * Boeoek 1? “Yes, Mr, Keeno,’—making meal of his hands again, “Where's tht boy, Bocock 2? * Tle tas not come baek ih Mr. Keene,* * D—n that boy, Bocoek! never saw such a boy to stay mwa Mr, Keene again goes off seven thousand nilles in half 2 minute, and looks as if hehad not one frlend left in the world, * Bocoek 7 *Yua, Mr, Keene, says the obliging broker, again golng Into the meal business, and look- Ing very necommoduting, Self me 10,000 shares of Northwestern,” “Yes, Mr. Keene, Hezekluh, go out and sell ing 10,000 shares of Northwestern |”? «Hesse Keone," agatn rojoelng in meat iy Mr. Keone,” agaln rojotelng in meal, “Where's that boy, ‘Moenei * Ju ling not returned yet, Mr, Keenot” “D—n that boy, Bocock; Fwouldn't have such s boy, leould have gone to tho Stock HExchangd mynele and back three tines by Y ity jure Mr. Keene fixes Ils neck-tie In tho looking-glass, “* Bocock }" “Yes, Mr, Keene,” averything being meal now, “Sell ime 6,000 shares of Erle} I hava changed my mind, Buy me 10,000 shurea of Northwestern)? “Yes, Mr, Keone,” Repeal tho Tax on Knowledge. Chleago Journal. ‘Tho movement for the repeal or modifier. tion of the import duty on print-paper ts pro- kresslng. ‘Thue comblintion entered into by ptper-mmanufacturers ta rob the publie by extortionate prices Is ikely to reeoil upon the conspirators, Tho following ts from tho Teport ot the Congressional proceedings yes- erdny Mr, Bucknor, of Missourl, Introduced a bill to- day providing ‘that the duty on papur shill bo uted ud vatorom us follows? Sized or glued pis per, sultuble for printing paper, 5 per centumy Uneized, used for nuwapiperd aid books exelte alvely, 6 por contum; manufactures of paper, or of which paper Is wcomponent part, not other wise provided for, 16 per centunt; elieathlag pre yer 4 per contin; puper boxes aud all other nney Boxes, 15 per contum: pupor hangings and Paper for screens und treboards and untlquas rh drawing, elephant, fouleap, and lapertal lotter-puper, not otherwise provided for tn thls vot, 16 per contum, and that all manufuetures of paper muche, In whole or in part, 20 per contum, it the unconsclonable manufacturers of print-paper do not heed the slans of tes and abate thelr present high prices, 1s possibla that the reactive mensures nt proposed nus Prove vb onee retallatory all disastrous, ‘Thore is a polut beyond Which thy true polley of Protection will not go, und We Inow of no surer way in whieh Atuerlean Munnufacttirer can get upa boom for Frey rude, i€ that fs what they want, than by tuk- ing advantage of our protective turiif system Ae she eatablisimnent of uxturtionaté mo- opaly, Pictures of lreland’s Terrible Dis- tress—Starving to Death. "' Afraid to Seo His Ohildron""—Hungor and Hopeless Sadness in the West. New York Hertht, Fel 8. Tt would be impossible to give space to the hundreds of appents for ald from various mots of Ireland published in tha Dublin Journals from: the 2oth te the th of Jame ary. From all parts of thd Island, and es- ‘peelally from. the western coasts, the letters, asking for agsistanee bring to Mehta heart- *rending condition of alfulrs. Letters from parlsh priests, reporty of loen) comunittces, the descriptions of apeclal correspondents sent out from Dublin and other eithes,—we give roont for oxtracts from all, and yet wo ean give thus only fsolated pletures of the terrible calamity that lias befallen Lreland, AN APPALLING HICTURE, A letter from Clifden, In the extreme west of Galway County, written on the 28d of dan nary, hag. been published at Dublin, which gives 0 terribig pleture of the position to whieh things have already come all through that region: “ Last evening Clifden presented an appalling pleture, Crowds of ragged fanilatiud men and women thronged around the doors of the menl-shops ‘elamoring for food. Many had walled up all through the night In the bitter frost besieging the houses of the Relief Committee. Several thousands flocked Into town during the day demanding rellef. Several men selzed members of the Committee, erying: ‘We are starving; we mitst have food!? ‘I'he police lind to be call- ed in to clear the imealshops of the mob, ‘They gathered threateningly sround the house where the Rellet Committee were sitting. ‘The Rey, Mr, Coreurnn hat to address them from the window, limploring them to give the Committee two hoursto ar range. The crowd tls persed for a time! Five hundred relief Uekets for hnlf 0 bug of meal each were Issued during the day, ‘Two hun- dred more were issued the previous day, There are still applications unprovided for, Knots of men and women remalued In thestreet un- tilmiduight, though the atr wns Intensely cold, The Conmittee’s resources are now ex- Dausted, ‘Shey are £50 in debt for meal. ‘The demoralizing Lttuence of reef in charity in- steal of work 1s alrendy making Itself paln- fully felt. Charity has more than enough to do in feeding aud clothing school-vhildren and helplug the sick aud aged. ‘The first day: tho new industrial sehvol at Ardbear opened over 300 children npplfed for thelr breakfast, Owing to the want of funds only soventy ean now be fed. | ‘The Sisters of Merey are giving breakfast dally to 120 children, and are doing wonders In the way of efothing and nourish- Ing the siels, huis broken out ut Carna, Four families nre stricken down: in one Village, They hayo no food but what the helzhbors glve for charity.” ‘The writer ndd- ed that, “aness employment is provided In n fortnight, deaths and disturbances are Inevitable,” A very serlous ineldent is also reported, The Liverpool Committee of Re- lief had forwarded ten tons of Indian meal for Clifden, which were beby conveyed around the const frou Galway Inn hook- er,” or fishing smack. When passing Slyne Head, olf Errlsmore, the hooker was bonrded bya crowd of men who ene out In bonts, ‘Thoy declured they were starving, and de- manded the relief ment. ‘The pilot sald he had but one life to lose, and would: Tose it in defense of his vessel. ‘The raiders tried to drag the hooker on: the rocks, but wer daunted by the display: of firearms, Th broke open the hatches, saying they wanted nothing but the rellef meal, ‘The master sald itwas at the bottom of the boat, andi that the bags of meal on the top belonged to Clifden merchants, and had thelr names on them, and ‘that If would be piracy to touch them. ‘They were tinally persuaded to leave without, tal ‘ng, anything. The hooker ar- vived safely at Clifden, itis rumored that 0 gunboat will be sent to ernise in Galway waters for the protection of provisions arriy- ing by sea, . POVERTY ON THE WEST COABT, A speelal correspondent of the Freeman's Journal, writing from Oughterard, Galway County, says: Even whore the little store of potatoes was consumed « month ago, seeds und all, there was atl! the price of the pig or the proceeds of the handful of onts to eep the wolf from the door, Even yet there are, as L reekon, three weeks between usand « general total fallure of food. At the present moment, according to the most enreful cateulution Lean make after personal visitation, there are sixty heads of faullies who rise every morning without knowing where they are to get brenkfast for thelr six or elght children; Who simply exist from day today upon Poor-House rollef, or upon the eharity of nelghbors only less wretched than themselves, ‘They share with one another Uke a. shipwrecked crew, have seen a family of ten dependent for | their supper upon little mensura of .ydl- Jow meal bestowed upon them ‘for ebarity by ‘a neighboring man,’ who, three weeks hence, will be without his supper hime self. Every week will add with: trightful rapldity to the hungry army, Hy the begin- ning of Mareh—1 dell peralcly pledge myself to tho usseition—five-sixths of the entire po ulatlon of this parish will be absolutely with- out the means of existence If they are aban doned to their fate, ‘There are iunulreds of holdings so denuded of stock that they are without a cow, a sheep, or even a ple, There fs not a feather bed left unpawned outside the town, | in fifty cnblus 1 did not meet one comfortable pair of binnkets, ‘try to realize the frlehttul dead level to which’ the people have descended when L tell you of one broad shouldered giant who returned from the En- glish hurvest-ficlds in 18738 with 4:9 In his pocket, and returned in 1870 on a pauper’s rellef tleket without a farthing; of two other strapping young fellows who came home from Amerlen two years ago with $200 aptees in thelr pockets, and were, when Tan. them, reek- oning that they would be starving algut the mludle of February; of ono once thr farmer, generally lelleved to hava ¢ stocking,’ who ernwied to the pri to inter- cedy for him with & Galway trader for a bag of meal; of another, who was pouring bless- ings on the Oughterard Sisters of Morey for the present of u soldicr's cast-off tunic. For God's suke, let not anybody lug Ihnself with tho notion {hut these ‘ara crentures of faney and not men of flesh and blood like ourselves, Lum oyercoloring nothing, and [dare any- hay who looks beneath the surface to say or write otherwise, Most of those who linvo still potatoes to eat are encroaching upon thelr xecd, tho Inst morsel of enrgo the 8 Hin wrecked farmer will throw overboxrd, and {n three weeks will have none left to encroach upon, And again let me remind you that in Oughterard you only hear, us ft were, the overture to the full swell of distress in Con- nemara, Known asf do from bitter re- mombranee, if Shad begins? that ‘wore romalns behind,’ At the commencement of Mareh, at the farthest, there will be 350 funnilics of foodless papers, who, for the folloseltig four months, must receive extras neous wid or die, ¥EEDING ON CANDAGES ALONE, A. correspondent of the Freemaws Jour nal Welty on the 20th of dannary from Rosbelgh, County Kerry, siys: “On Mon: dy 0 prelimiuury weethig of a most prie- tical nature was held here, its object’ being to organiza loenl conunitlea and to ascer= fain with eertalnty tho extent and character of the distress axfating In the district. Dur Ing the proceedings » crowd of about 700 persons had assembled outside tho room ehunoring for relief, bearing wnnmistakable sens of hunger, the majority of whom were able-bodled inen, ‘Choy coisisted of smalt farmers—holiing the grass of from ony to (ives cows, but no cow on the land—aud laboring men who are rendy and willing to work fora day's hire, but cnn get no work, Both classes ure equally destitute. It was ascertilned that about 2380 familles were tn distress, exch. faintly, mM on average, NUM bering about five, Another member of the Comuittve stated that he knew cases fn whieh fiuntiies constiting of seven, cight, anc nine persons were has on cabbage wone for the past weok, and clght others an astone of meal fora week, These peoplolde their nakedness all day long in thetr wretched Hovels, without windows, without chimneys, without a hed to Ite on except a handful ot straw, until the shades of night afford them an opportunity of coming out to beg the above-mentioned chofea morsel from thelr uefalihors, Several other cases were brought to Nght where persons having nothing else to eat Were compelled to root out of the ground the sual potntoes left there for seed, and this ly thelr only means of support for the present, Even this, us a last resource, will ‘ail theni in a few days, and then God dong Anows what wHl be the fate of this wretched many wattld have starved this time past but for the kindness of the Most Rev, Dr. Me- Carthy, Bisthoy Kerry, who has forwarded ans of money from time to thoe for thelr rellef, amounting tnnll to 240, Yet there are Mumbers whom It did not meet, ag the distress is datly widening Inn tost extraordinary manner, ‘The proceedings were brought ta a conclusion, the Comittee agreeing that homediate rellef was required, so the Seere- lares were ordered to write to the different rellef funds for ald,? THE DEPTIE OF MISERY, A correspondent of the Freemans, Jour- nel, writing from Rosimuck, on the Galway const, on the 18th of January, suyst After visiting the townlands pon te Rosmuek promontory, where all that ts not stone tt quivering hog, [traversed Rosmuck Bay by boat fer twelve miles, past Lettermore, Let terealbagh, and TWanncerngh Sslands: to the group of stony islands and semi-peninsulas called Lettermullen, Tniving rinuaged the \nepeakable nests of sldelings upon Dinan Island we peneirated the townland of Care rnroe; then, seross elght aniles of wate: through the narrow juss of Belandangals consting on eltber side the wretched towne Inns of Toween, Camus, and Snanebo, undid we found ourselves. pleking our way hi the darkness up tl prinous rocks of the lle natural cove of Gurrofin, I found not one single field dial that streteh of eor Jncumbered with bowlders, but eve patches of starv Itlvation scooped out of corners of the rocky plating, or bidlt up in high beds of bog stl, With deep streams running iu the furrows between found thesa starvling plots loaded with rack-rents whieh would be esteemed merettess In Tipperary, But let that pass, 1 found that stoek of any sort have disappenred from hundreds: of holdings, even to the very hens, and that whatever [ttle famished mountain cows ure left are not only absolutely valueless for sale, but are Hteralfy starving, Uke their owners, for want of food. 1 found that the seed oats tre in manyerses gone, and the seed potatoes Inall places golng. I found that the kelp trade, which was us vital to these people a3. gerivulture, ns within two yeurs declined three-fourths in amount and” two-thirds in price—Is, in. fact, utterly and Lepelet , ritlaeds that their fishing has been of the rud- ext, and that tint, foo, has been unfortunales thatthe very oysters renting whieh used to give the people employment lias been three. fourths destroyed hy the euptdity of the rich proprietor of the fishery, Dreekon that 600 Taunilles at the least will ina month have ex- hnusted thelr last ounee of food and thelr Inst chance of raising any, and that at least 100 families are wiready in that terrible stralt. I saw numbers of men, women, and children who wero slowly wasting for want of food,—upon two meals 0 day, upon one meal a diy, and that a hond- ful of Inillan-meal ‘lent? by somo less wretched neighbor, and eaten without a drop of mit, Lsaw a tan Frowling, oyer dug potato-flelds and digging _them again for u couple of forgotten roots, “I saw an infant eniwing a turnip nad elght Jittle brothers and sisters about her without a rag of unde: clothing, Tsaw “lg! of stones and ge: weed that, If they were In any other country of the world, would raise humanity in revolt, J saw a sick old woman who could not stand up withottt pulling the roof of the little cir. cular shivling made: of suds of, oe old, Which she herself had construeted between three huge bowlders, that suswered as walls, J saw more than one hovel Iu the depths of the bogs actually built all over with tripping bog mold, thitehed with heathgrass, saw a family of nine who had nothing in the world to keep fe In them exeept such pert winkles as they could gatheron the neigh boring. stand) Agu, withal, thelr peaceful- ness, their patience, their resignation, even thelr cheerfulness, Is one of the most as. founding things in the world. 1 have had fo muuco a Journey closo to widnight. alone through “one of the wost necessitous realons of Connemara, and the only persons, Teneountered In a distance of nineteen miles were two polleemen on patrol and a water Dai watehing the rlyers, As for thelr cheerfulness, Father Keane questioned 1 widow with five children, who had only two vals more Of potatoes, and had traveled to Galway in vain for credit, how were they to live when the potatoes were gone. Twill never forget tho expression of sweet trustful- ness with which she said in Irish, looking into the priest’s face, ‘Neither God nor you willlet the litte orphans starve, Aher She- mus? A poor old hag, clad in a short and rmeged red petticoat, and nothing more, met uson the road near Carraroe, and, putting out her withered, sidnny hand, sald, always in Ivish, *Lexpeet. youll stretel: out some hand tome, Aher Shemus? he priest, with that mixture of padiosand good humor which itseems to me alone keeps the yeople from going nd, put out his right hand frankly and sald, "There itis; it isang empty as your own. The poor old {hing, as if cheered by tho sonse of sutfering shured, shook her old fray. Is with Inushing as she sald, with o Messing, ‘Why, then, more 1s the pity. hat it mightn't beso long.” Amen! AFTRA TO SER 118 CHILDREN, Writing from Ardngh, Edgeworthstown, County Longford, the Rey. dames Reynolds, DP. P, writes on tho 2oth of January! “lity fittle longer timo the appeal will be too Inte; and the rellef, If granted, will bo of Jttle avall, ‘The people are in adire distress and usk for coiployeient and we implore you, as representatives of the people, to urge thelr denmndg on the proper authorities, If Loug- ford Union be scheduled on the list of reflet Joans the mmount of drafiage employment. iven in this parish will effectually rellove the people aud drive starvation from our tloars, ‘That deep and great distress ut pres- ent prevalls In various parts of the union no sine man wiildeny, That this distress will extend and intensify as. time goes on fs too clear to every one acquainted with the coun- try. Inthe northern parts of tho union the dixtress Is very great already, and the need of rellef v urgent. In this’ parish, In whieh the majority of the people were rather well to do, the past few weeks" expericned minkes me very nuxious and troubled indeed. In one cabin f found a father and five chil- dren who, for three days, had Hved on a couple of pints of Indian meal. ‘This iman Was willlng to work, but had no employment. for weeks, Another father of ole wt in famlly, after 9 weary walk all day fooking for work, at night called on me to tell his story, and sald he was afraid to go hone to his children whom he had left hungry in the mornlng and not & morsel of food’ in the house. Teould add more eases to my list, bnt these will serve ns examples, for the truth of which 2 pledge my personal experi ence. If among the people of Ardagh there are Instances of such dire pressure, what niust bo the distress In poorer districts, Yet weonly ask for work, and for the sane Sneilittes for employment as given in other districts not so willfng or so able to avall of them, ‘The workhouse numbers is not a suNlctent test of distress, Thememory of the horrors of 47 will oneourage the poor to cling to thelr homes, where, It they’ die, the neighbors will bury them mong their own kin, and not crowd them Into a nameless pipers grave, Let ine urge you earnestly to press aur ease on the authorities, Faellf- tles for seaplane are all that we ask. ‘Tho people are willing to earn their bread. ‘Tho small fanmers, straltened In means and dhe tresned themselves, are unible to give any employment, Jeaye our case in your hands,” HUNGER AND HOPELESS BADNESS, A speclal correspondent of the Liverpool Datly Post, writing from Connemara, says: “At ono slde‘of tho fine bay which opens up to the Town of Roundstone is the Istand of Junisnee, upon which there are about elehty- four funllies reside t. In company withthe parish priest, Fathor Molton wid athers wo nade a visht to this place, | hho holdings an this litte istand range from ubout £3 to 24 per annum, ‘The Jang fs the property of nilnors, ond fs under the control of the Chaneery Court. It is not over-rented, All tho evils of failure In each of the Industries tu whieh they were shunree have fallen upon the Inhabitants, Not only have -crops been bad and fabor unobtalnable, but. thelr speen- lations have accumulated amass of debt upon them. Inthe first house which we entered wheartrending slght was presented. Thut the equln or hut, which cousisted of a singly room, was sinoke begrimed and almost wb- solutely destitute of even the rudest fur niture might be expected te be under tho conditions of Ife which prevail in Conne- mara; but the wretchedness of want whieh. Nad been reached by the himates was plainly toll by the appearance of hunger and the aspect uf hupeless sudness presented by the tumily, Aman and his wife and several children were huddled together over a fay sods of turt which wero sieldering upon the floor, It was not easy to distinguish at first in the comparative darkness of an upart- ment Jnto whieh light wis only admitted by: the nperture of a sinall duorway, which yout had to stoop to pass through, how many per sons were Inthe place, ‘Lhe group around the turf embers seemed to be the only vecu- pants of the dwelling, but presently there cue & rustiing and plteaus mounlng from some living creature which Iny ime vedded in a heap of straw close to the turf fire, and an elderly woman, 9 relajive of tha ovcupant of the cabin, evl- dently, poor creature, alimost within’ the grasp of death, struggled {ito a partly erect position, a dog ut the same tline starting from, the eying wont had been lying with the an imal In order that the brite might impart some heat fo the poor ereature’s wasted frame. ‘This was nota casy of a skeleton In the eupbourd, but of a yeritable, skeleton upon what should be the hearth, It was but a work of supererogation to tnquire what were the means and resourecs of this family. ‘There was wo provision in the house e: we very sinall quantity of potatoes and a little Jndinn meal, and anything that the small pateh of land whieh the familly held could supply for food or for seed for the coming sensoi had been eaten Into. We were quite prepared for tho announcement witeh Fa- thor Mollony afterward made, that this fam ily, among several others, lind been relloyed Wy hin through tho fund of £20 placed at his disposal by the Archbishop of ‘Tuan? CHUB FROM ALL PAIeE, Dublin Freemans Journal (San, 81): “There Isa fearful erisls timpending fn Northwestern Donemi,—a district in whieh tho existence of distress In an agarnyated shape was sought to be semt-oniciaily denied. In Glencolumbkille there are 400 families on the brink of absolute starvation; In Kilenr there fy about in equal number, and in Killy- hegs, where the actual numbers haye not. heen nseertalned, a very Inrge proportion of the population are sfeeped in the most perilous misery, A striking proof of the ex- tent to whieh hunger has seized upon the people of Gleneolumbkille was atorded at. tho first meetiig ot the Local Relief Com- mittee at Carrick, when the sium of £100, which was reeclved from the Central Com- mittee, was allocated entirely to the pure chase of meal, the supply of whieh was swept away, so fleree nn over whebultue wis the necessity for ff, Ina moment. | So large is the starving Pelnaiatien of the distriet, so completely penniless agit resourceless | are they, and so long the period of distress whieh stares them In the fnee, that thelr prospect seums frightful? A. correspondent writes from Corofin, Clare County, on the 220 ult, to the Preemawe Journal: “Some Ume ago Twas enlled to attend aman who lind not long shee had a strong frame, He told methat he was (as he then thought) on his deathbed from want, and, even though I were alle porea to doubt, the whole surroundings plainly told his words were no He. He did uot dle, but 1s, for the the at least, 1 harmless lunatic in one of the workhouse wards, Mind, I don't mean to say for certain that one was caused by the other, having no medleat evidence to ustify mein this, but I cannot help think- ing there may be some connection between them, T know another who pald in full tho November rent, and, unless Providence sends rellef, L more than fear bi f and a large familly will before a month be In absolute want, Cases might bo easily multiplied, and tho ‘two in which death was nceclerated from want of food and fuel,’ avcording to the sworn evidence of Dr. MacNumara, tho eficient medical ofticer of the district, are , not isolated cases,’ Atu recent meeting of the Rellef Commit tee nt Balllua, County Mayo, presided over by the Bishop of Killnta, 16 was resolved that all able-bodied men should he put to break stones at seven shillings per week, and one penny per box for any broken over a glyen quantity. Fifty hammers and ndozen sledges were procured, mid the men were put to work to-day, In teams of ten, ina disused Hmestone-quarry, close to the town, granted. for the puraan by Lord Arran, ‘However, the men had seareely commenced work when the tenant of the field in whieh the quarry was situated cnme, it is alleged, and turned them out. ‘They then parauedt Ta streets in a large body, uglig such expressions as “We must get employment or we will brent the wiidows and commit other erimes, so ns to obtain food or bo sent to Jall, where we will not starve.” They also congrezated In front of tho Bishop's residency in Ardnaree, say- ing they could not use the dry Indian meat which they were getting ns rellef, Tis Lord- ship said the funds at’ their disposal eould afford nothing better, A OIANCE ACQUAINTANCE.”? Mow a Washington Business Man Gavo President Hayes Politien! + Points, Correspondence NewYork Graphite. Wastinaton, D.C. Feb, 6—One of our most popular and enterprising business men was In New Jersey several weeks ago aud got into the train to come home. ‘The parlor car was crowded, but the porter sald: “Take your seat anywhere, sir, for n few minutes, Some of these passengers get out goon, and then ll give you a sent. My friend entered the car, and without cer- emony sented himself beside a stranger, who was reading 1 New York morning paper. My friend fsa iittle sensitive about the story Lam to tell, nnd I will not give his name, but for the purpose of identifleution I will call him Peters! Iv is a yery suclable man, a stalwart Republican, and pretty well up on polities, Tho stranger Jald down Ils paper pretty soon and engaged in conversation with Peters on the topes of the diy. Business, speculation, and other matters were dis- cussed, and yery’ naturally the conversation ran into polities, of which subject. the stranger did not seem anxious ‘to talk, Peters asked him how far he was golng, and tho stranger replicd that he was on his way to Washington. “Five there ?” asked Peters, “Only temporarily,” was the stranger's reply, and he proceeded to explain-that he was In oilice, “What part of the country are you from?" * Olilo.”? . “Lots of Ohfo men around Washington singe tlayes came in!” remarked Peters with osmite, Yes," replicd the stranger, wo Ohio people think we can supply the brains and muskets for the whole country? “Modest folks, you Ohio men”? sald Peters again; “got the President, ern of the Anny, Chief-Justice, Secretary of the ‘Treas- ury, and about halt the offices, and new you want to nominate another Ohlo man ‘for Prealdent. Do you think John Sherman Btands. ny chines of belng nominated 2 1 really don't ke to express an opinion on that subject,” replied tho straner, promptly, tary Sherman ig 9 frien of mine, and Lwould lke sery niuch to seo him President, but I cannot estimate his btrength,!? “They say Hayes is glving him a big lft,” suggested Peters, y Norevly. “IT understand that Civil-Service order about ofticeholders fooling with paitticat conventions hits been temporarily withdrawn, so that Jolin Sherman can wet hls Southern delegates to Chicago,” said Peters, “A great many things have been aald by Secretary Sherman's opponents that are nelther true nor reasonhblte,” answered the stranger, somewhnt ahi t Se % “Well, Tike to sew Hayes stand by his ends” remarked Peters; “but If that Civil-Service order ever was Intended to be enforced It ought to be enforeud now, while the fight for tha nomlintion fs being’ anade, Hut it was never meant to be enforced, Hayes issued It to satisfy somvof the namby- punby, git-cdged pollilelans, who are il ways for reform when they are out of ofiice. It never mado any difference with the pollt- feal mnehinery of this country, and {¢ never was intend id “Tho President was sincere In Issuing that order, sald the stranger, “and I. happen to know that he desires [1a enforcement.” “Thope he isn’t ying awnke nights fret- ting about it,” remarked Peters, ‘The stranger changed the topic of conver> sation, and pretty soon Peters asked If he wouldn't smoke. The proffered claar was declined, and Petora went to the smoking: room alone, ‘hora he met an acquafntance, who asked; “What gentloman was that you were talk- ing with 2? . “Dunno,” reapouded Peters, “1 belloye he ts an Olilo Congressman, {didn’t ask his nane, but he sald he was In office.” “What wore you talking ubout?? “Volities, mostly. Ile seems to be an Ad- milnistration man, Says he wants John Sher- man nomlnated, and seemed a ittle touchy when 1 sald that Hayes’ Clyil-Servles reform bustiess wasn humbug, lo said he knew, Hayes was sincere, and alt that.” “Don’t you know who ho Is?” “Nos Thnever saw him before,” sure auw tho President of the United ates wl ly Moses! Is that ITayes?” e8, : “You don't iell met I thought T knew the Hane but it didn’t oecur to ime that he wos ayes. That ald you say to him?” “Nothing but what Dil Lackey, and noth- Ing but whut ly true; but maybe T would not havo expressed my views so clearly Jt Thad known who J was talking with, Look ‘here, porters can't you gel le a seat in the other car : ——— Burdotte on thesOhio MoundeBullders, Burdette has been moralizing among the proe- hlatorle moundd of Nowark, 0. lie roy rte hie Nections thus: Hore the mound-builders sald tholr prayers and curved their captive encinica on tho y mound, the eagle" ultar in tho coutre, ire the Leyislature uf thos days mut; Clonk-ren tose tho bitsy foblbylat. and receive thee” hofore they vated at the tithe Tinee et 288 money lunatte of the alter dasa irged ey fate Inedinte fate OF FONOMOO0 Mashely gt yet wood seamnpuim whieh eboutd (1 all respecte ty considered as goo ne Riel waimpuin and tappee mongy. Hore, in tho duaity twilight of n cet Aye, men who ‘weren't, tte be Panag eam wanted to ran for Congress, and ante Trent better nets and act towed, med gage APA soklier voto by tntrodtietin Hts te ive tinge? Jand nnd monoy to nll soldiers of the Inge who bad attalid tho nye of 100 yeu ang SY ward, dive thousand sours aycil Totny We ctreld is lonoiys forest. trees crown ite gle init, Centurtes “have pasted away vince i {ny germs put, forth the frst tendee oe that struggted through the clinging ma nt Sulhering loaves, nnd looked ont upon a world, rund saw that tt was sone, and tine te es made, principally, for the Oho man. Tepe this Haunted spot, athor hearte hve uh with love and ached with palit, Friends eee Hand loved fn thoxe dusty Folttnde ships bave heon broken ind het eds tho leap flrex of generous nt rhght storm. Hero mutnhood hae bared ite yeast brenst to the shafts of the suvasy foe, and hey lovely woman has stepped, with her bare tect, on Uittle green Bnnke, not fote Inches long and Jumped clear over tte tound witha fe Hat'suured ul the tilk {hla ade of the Hee Mocking mound, ‘They lived, they planned, an] scheme they knew fhe sting of envy und th bitterness of hates they worshiped tere, and tho urching aisles Of the Forest mine with weg anthems is they song without Unig Ptbresrax] t4 x tunxdrelitl pltchtucl, Whextd nitretoutcr globin nextal siizctiucil xr alehtntzycen ‘Chtosl, ehitezt as day.” gene “NEW YORI. How n Grant Delegation Is to my, curcd—Conkling to Prenldencys New Yonk, Feb, 8—The actlon of tho Pemnsylvanin politicians tn choosing a Grang delegation to Chicago has attracted the at. tention of: New York politicians to the methods that are belng pursued th this State to nccomplish tho same end. The taetles to be followed were shown on Friday, when tla machine in Albany chose Grant delegates from that county tu the State Convention to be held In Utica on. the 25th inst. ‘The Re publicans tn Albany County have heen con trolled: in Conkling’s interest Jobin B, Smyth, Insurance Superintendent. Ity eon rapt practlees, however, beeamv so distaste. ful to the hotter members of the party tha they combined last fall and defeated the Smyth candidate for Sherif, and have sineg organized an Ante Phird-Term Club, com posed of the Jeading Republicans of the coun ty. ‘This Club facreased so rapidly in ine. dership and influence as to mat pyarent that the Aepublicany of that county were op posed to Grant, John F. Smyth, whode sires to be renominated for Insurance Super intendent, was tok by the Conkling nan apets that his renomination would be hnpos sible unless ho could elect delegates to the State Convention from Albany County who would du Conkting’s biiding, In this emergency, a eauens was called and a plan devised to eall prhnaries for the next day Cerielay) publishing the call Inthe Smyth organ, whieh bas wv very Ilinited de culation, In the meantime notice was tobe given to ull the Capitol employés and ring followers to be on land at the primaries. To make sure lest they should go sveretly avainst Bul, each one was furnished with a pink ballot, with the name of Grant printed onit, an containing the names of the Smyth dele gntes. ‘The plan worked well. ‘The ingjority of the Albany Republiequs did not know that priniries liad been enlled until the Jornal came out in the evening—when the electlon was over—announclag that Sinyth hind carried the day. The result is w row in the Republican camp, Ex-Senator Hamilton Harris, George Dawson, Matthew Hale Smith, and other fenling Republicans heve called an indigna. Hon meeting tobe held In Tweddle Hall nest Wednesday evening, when new primaries will be enlled and a contesting delegation sent to Utlen, ‘This, however, will result in no goad, us Smyth's delugation will be regular, and the machine will ucwtt tt noe withstanding the outrages of its election Smyth came down to New York yesterday, and last met was closeted with Arthur, O'Brien, Wheeler, and other Republican leaders, devising plans similar to the one used in Albany for electing delegates from other parts of the State to the Utica Convene tlon in places where there Is likely to be op positon to machine methods, In ‘this ma ner there Is no doubt that the tmuaclitne, the Convention, will’ send an instructed Grant delegation fo Chicago, - Besides this, men in the thterest of the Conkling machine, which 4s run by Gov, Cornell and Gen, Arthur, have been ull through Western New York, ising places on the canal and elsew Yoeal leaders If they would send dele Utica pledged to work harmonious tho machine, Tt would be surprising under these elreumstances If Conkling docs uot have his own way at Utlea. “WIL Grant bo nomfunted 2?” was asked Just night of a former Chairman of the Re publican State Committee, “I think very ikely he wit,” was the reply, “He has the Pennsylvania delegation, aud will have the New York ant. Winols delegations, ‘This will give him 170 delegates. It will require 3 to nominate, Sherman cannot be nomk nated, and some one must be who cau cary this State, It must bo elther Grant or Conke ling. ‘The delegates from this State, if thes sed no opportunity for Conkling,—anl, min you, fie is working largely for himself now. Will Insist on Grant. “He Js a candidate, and will remaln on wnt{l the nomination fs made, le will get many of the Southern votes, If not all, and this, with the 170 delegates he will have pledged, will nominate bin, an to make New York State sure, Conktlng wil accept the Vien Li reaitlency. But n Conl {ing boom Is now working, | ‘Tho Harrisburg Cou vention has warned ‘the men in this State; al the State Committes are Conkling men, and T think there will be a big effart to fore hig nominatton in order to enrry thls Stater Reporter—" Can he carry this State? Republiean—" ‘Tat 14 ‘the question; the Republican minority In the Stat fn tho last vleetion was 57,000, Now; it will bo urgel that tho only hope for the Republicans is the continned division of the Democrats; that Conkling fs the only man that can keep {hist up. throtigh his widerstanding with Kelly, ‘Therefore, the only hops of the Republicans earryimg this State ts for tha nomluatian o Conkling or his candidate. 1¢ rentatns to be seen What effect this will haves? ‘ Reporter—" WII the Democratic division continue? i Politiclan—* You, there is no doubt that lt will, If Mr, Kelly can keep It wp; bat fo not think he can contro) many voles enough to give the State to Grant agalus any good Democrat.” a Aun Artintic Family. danutun News, Jan. 23. 9 With tho death of Mx. ‘hhoutas: Landeccr, 9 artiatle family of great eminence ends its work, at least for thig generation, The Cather t ‘Thomas, Charles, and Edwin Landseer a eugriver, and the tulent of. thuse three atl ri wins, ko Unt of Shiphact, borudiiary, Ark pat deve In fumilles than most forms of Inteltec i tendeney, The Bachd have ndded, bn the connie of 40 yenrs, no fewer than titty nuimes hed Mletory of music, Muny of ‘tha old Hulten Masters were the sons of alters’ of uinen ni Whosa fame ‘has been ubsoured | My Abst tholr greater children. Yotwe rarely find ae with a poet son, or a phiosopher Whowg or i “takes uftor hit,” ag Mr, Jolin Bluart MIL : after his father, Probatiy the reavon Harel tho gon of an artist is aftracted and ee from hls very Infuncy oy the calor wee instruments "of urt, te philnsone or sine Lee ie ae auch asthe an propertics, nothing but books, pers, tity bnpor. Achild fs not interested In these, ea oven very young ebildren say, Dry ns 8 Pe frie eatran, tons have died away bn sullen ashe hopes that glowed like euntight Inthe have gone down in rayless night and -urv,and ura cuptivuted by” tho mltutions of art. ‘Tho elder brothors touch tho younger too, ns in the groatuthietio families, ke thot of tho Lyttlotony, Graces, Walkers, and tiene ‘Thus the familles of artists may take weary very nuturally, oyen without great hereaitr? gifts, ‘That of Sir Edwin Landseor wis tte Yeloped out of nll proportion to the pie his Drothora, Edwin Landseer’s best Mh Hist aro among tha yreat works of the 1 MCF school, and thelr flfiuve In color i made UP ah by extraordinury fide! Wi and humor; salaried by a gleam of podtry, ‘Tho pietures of a pile Were, perhaps, no mare than respretuble, Sh the skill of Thomus us un engriver Win op *comploment,” #0, to apcuk, of the Kis Lrothtiis enltas pith, penell ay cainine engravings mute Sir Edwin Landseer 3? Ute compositions tumiliar not only hn Eualaads but ullover the world. —— Too Honvy a Lond. (Tho Washington Capital auys that tho 4 after the Ponmsylyania Republican Convey, adjourned no Hepublican Bonutor was wy if « you think Bhorman would bu Dari ‘sone Grint ay Keoretary of the Treasury?" The At ator’a reply was: © No, alr, No member ofr preaent. Cabinet would bo retained bY Ti irant, and Sherman least vf all. Grunt tht. foul if hiv duty to shuulder the Jali ‘of turnin, Hon or the First Nutlonal Be ork," : ” aie " Avold.a costivo habit of body, Nol only causa of the nitending discomfort, but lest)? engender. mare serious consequellces og Jayne's Sinutiva Bile ry, either Watt ue cathartte, accurding (a the dose, outed upon to praduos healiy igeretlons diver und stomgeh.