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i4 THE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. every suob profane curse or oath. . . .° And ments.” The pocts are especially di ee FOREIGN. Modifications of the German Church Bill in Com- mittee. The Rev. Mackonochie Sustained by the Court of Arches. GREAT BRITAIN. SIR BARTLE FRERE. Loxpon, June 5.—Highty-six members of Parliament have signed the memorial asking for the recall of Sir Bartle Frere. The me- morial has been sent to Gladstone. RELATIONS WITH BURMAH. A Rangoon dispatch says: “The Burmese ‘Ambassador beforo leaving for home sent a letter to the British Commissioner, but it was returned with the intimation that in the present giate of relations between Burmah and Great Britein no communication could be received.” THE RIFLE-MATCH. . Sir Henry Balford writes regarding the int®r- national rifle-match at Wimbledon: ‘I intend to hold no competition for the purpose of choos- ing my team, but to take them from their publle and eral performant asin my Sproles thaviea more entiefactore. pian than & very exhaustive series of competitions.’ ‘WOOL SALES. At the wool sales to-day £300 bales were dis- pe ‘of, principally Port Phillip, Sydney, Ade- de, and New Zealand. The market was quict ‘and prices unchanged. MACEONOCHTE SUSTAINED. 3.—In the action against the peRietander Sackonochie, of oe aiban's Church, Holborn, to.deprive bim of bis benefice, Lord Penzance, Dean of the Arches, refused to tthe writ of deprivation against him as ng nugatory. His Lordship said it would not be seemly for the Court to su) le its own decree in a former case against Mackonochie, in which it refused the writ as being nugatory. GERMANY. THE CHURCH BILL. BEEurn, June 5.—The Committee of the Prus- sfan Diet to which was referred the Church bill hhas decided in favor of the important clausea. ‘The Government owes this success to a coalition of the ultra-Conservatives, Ultramontanes, and Poles, who make up eleven votes. The minority of ten consisted of Liberals and free Conserva- tives. The first of the three clauses makes the highest provincial official alone competent to appeal to the State authorities against eccles!- astical decision. ‘The second clause recites that the power of secular courts is. not to extend to Sisplacing those who are incapable of filling their offices, and the third clause cnables the Sovereign to repiace deposed Bishops. * "LEAVE OF ABSENCE. BrRxurx, June 5.—The King of Bavaria has ited his representative in the Bundesrath, iron ‘von Rudnart, a two months’ leave of ab- sence. The Baron was sternly rebuked, by_ Bis- marck in connection with the Altona-St. Paull difficulty, and he resolved to show some inde- ‘pendence of spirit. RUSSIA. OF THE EMPRESS. gr. Perfhsncnc, June 5—The funeral of the Empress of Russia will be sulemnized at Petro paulavet Fortress on Wednesday next. The re- maing will be removed to-day to a large chapel mm the Winter Palace, where services will be held. All persons attached to the Court hare ‘been directed to attend. The remains will be taken to the fortress on Monday to lie in state. high officials on furlough will be present at the obsequies. MOURNING. SEELIX, June 5.—The Russian army has been ordered to wear mourning six months in mem- ary of the Empress ot Russia. FRANCE. NEWSPAPER DUELISTS. Paxis, June 5.—Ollivier, Pain, and Lepelletior, writers on the extreme radical paper Mot D'Ordre, have telegraphed from Lyons, where they are staying in connection with Blancque’s eloction, accepting the chullenge of the staf of the GauloisforadueL They will return to Paris on the 9th inst. TURKEY. ‘THE _PORTE'S PROFESSIONS. CoNSTANTINOPLE, June 5.—The Suitan, in re- ply tothe address of the British Ambassador when presenting his credentials, expressed a de- sire for the accomplishment of the reforms pre- scribed by the Berlin treaty, and for the solution of all pending questions. ITALY. - UNFAVORABLY RECEIVED. Rome, June 5.—-A deputstion of the Centre Party of the German Reichstag, here to advise the Pope to preak off all negotiations with Bis- marck, met with an unfavorable reception from bis Holiness. CUBA. A LARGE FORCE OF INSURGENTS SURRENDER. Havana, Jupe 5—Gen. Guitierman and Brig- adler Jose Madto, insurgent lead have sur- rendered with 22 ‘oficers and men” i CYPRUS. CATILE PLAGUE. LARwAcA, June 5.—The cattle plague has re- ep and 2.000 animuls have died of it, a to- ‘of 100,000 in Cyprus. VARIOUS. THE PHYLLOXERA. Manzrp, Jane 5.—It is sald thephylloxera has 3] in the District of Coinbra, and on the et amines WHITTLINGS. Ifyour Iamvis heavy, a bit of long, narrow paper will make a lamp lighter. ‘The saints who are bound for heayen by way of the gollows are all on the homestretch. Not one American woman in one hundred can walk five miles—uniess it be on a shopping ex- cursion. A prima-donna, according to a Cockney, is Naturally a timid creature, for her art is always im ber throat. “Set inaSilver Sea” is the name of B. L. Farjeon’s new story. Didn't he mean to say he oped to see a silver tea-set? An Irishman, on seeing a very small coffin, exclaimed, “Is it possible that coffin was in- tended for any living creuture?" Aman was drowned ina bath-tub in Boston last week. Those Boston, people should learn something about a new thing before trying it. Have you ever noticed that the man with a cold Joves to talk just a ttle hoarser than ne 2 Jt is so pleasunt, to be taken notice of, you ow. J Among the Romans the giftof a ring was a badge of liberation from slavery. Murried peo- ple may best explain whether it is so among the moderns. Bilkington had passed away. Mrs. B., who had dust read the notice of his death in the news- paper, said: “What a pity, John couldn't read Unis! He would be so pleased to see his name in print” - “Hor asked Hippocrates of Dtogent “shall 1 show to the world that I have an Stone sive practice?” “By placing your office in the neighborhood of your favorit xraveyard,” was the answer. i A distinguished man once wrote to his vews- paper, * Renew my name this year; send me your paper aslong as I live, and, if you can send it aftermein the next world, doso.” They say this man lived to a very old age. A school-teacher, who has just been telling the story of Davia, winds up with: “And all this happened over 3.00) yeurs ago.” A little cherub, its blue eyes diluted with wonder, after nmoment’s thought: “O deur, marm, what a memory you must have!” A young New-Yorker was introduced to 2 Bos- ton girl, and before they were acquainted thirty Minutes she got so Lee that she had called bim an asterolepis, a Silurian placid, and a car- * Hinginous vertebrate. He returned to New _ York by the midnight train. “Why,” asked .Eschylus of Socrates, ‘should my head be totally devoid of covering, while you have a luxuriant vrowth of hair?” “You bave your compensation.” answered Socrates. wow?” arked Becosiue. “You heve no bair a ave hair and Nauti; re Bre bald and I am bawied at.” ape, * 1 sas, old fellow, that tatlor you recommend- ed meisascamp. I sent my overcoat to repair, and what do you think the ‘rascal has done with itt Why, pawned it!” “Yes, but that will en- able him to get mine out of. pawn; that's why 1 recommended him pogoe Now you recommend py some other fellow, and you will get yours When the Greeks were about to sail for Troy. Menclaus brought « bundie of straw and poet carefully away in hiscubin. What is that for?" asked Agamemnon. “To tell us the direction of breeze." answered Meneluus. "You're crazy!" said Nestor. “Why,” remarked Monee ous. = don't straws show which way the wind The etory 18 told of a clergym: preaching an Interesting sermon on thes tence nition of Friends in Heaven,” he was by ahearer, who said: “I iiked that sermon, and now J wish you would preach another on the ecogeiuon of people in this world. I have been attending your church three years, and not five persons in the congregation have so much as bowed to me in al! that time.” Flattery may be likened to a bot, scorching sun after a July shower. which, while st bright- ens, yet binsts what it seems to bless: while honest commendation of good deeds {sas the sun after an April shower, drawing into activity the noblest instincts of the soul, and bringing forth fruits of intelicet or industry where bar- Fenness might bave been the result of unappre- ciation. A famous,Judge came Iateto court One day"in busy season, Whereat his clerk, in great surprise, Inquired of him'the reason. “A child was born.” his Honor said, “And I'm the happy sire." “Aa infant Judger "Oh no,” sald he: As yet he’s but a Crier.” “Have you heard the latest?” asked Hierocles, as he sat down beneath the trees of the Acnde, mia. “No,” responded everybody. “Well, continued Hierocies, “the Athenians obtained 35,000,000 drachmas from the Carthaginians with which to pay the damages which citizens of Athens bad ‘suffered from piratical triremes fitted out in Carthaginian harbors, and, after paying every citizen who applied, the Athenians now hive on hand 10,000,000 drachmas of tho sum, for which they can find no injuries. LOCAL CRIME. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. Mr, J. L. Gates, with the wholesale grocery firm of Sprague, Warner & Co., was brutally as- sauited and robbed in his room at Nos. 358 and 360 Wabash avenue by two burglars. The building is Inid off in fate, and Mr. Gates occupies Rooms 1, 2, and3. One of these rooms opens to the hall, and is kept fastened with a chain. The other opens to the same hallway, is supplied with a lock, and is the door commonly used. The burglars entered tho former room by prying open the door with a !arge and power- fuljimmy. After entering the room the burg- lars closed the door behind them, and went ransacking about for plunder. Mr. Gates came home shortly after they entered, and going into the second room sat down in an easy chair and began taking off his boots. Sud- denly the door between the two rooms was thrown open, and the two burglars pounced upon him. One with a, revelver i ea re no jose oF ee roms Mr. Gates, thoug! atly surprised, feign otherwise, .and said. cool “Go ahead; tnke what you will," and as he did so:the second bur- glar kicked with the heel of his boot. Mr. Gates fell insensible to the floor, and the bur- glars, after stripping him of a_tadies’ gold watch and chain, ran down stairs and escaped. When Mr. Gates was able to give the alarm the thieves were far outof the way. Dr. Bates, who attended Mr. Gates, found a severe contusion on the rightoye and tomple. The in- fury is very painful, and the eye 1s probably ruined. Mr. Gates could give no lescrip- tion of his assailants last nigbt, but it is very evident that they are the. same men who have burglarized one tlat after another in that vicin- ity during the past two weeks. PICKPOCKETS AND SLUGGERS. Gen. Buell, of Missouri, is one of the hundred or two who have lost their watches in or about the hotels and gathering-places for politicians. ‘The majority of these cases have of course been suppressed. The General’s watch was a very valuable one, and is valued by the owner a8 a keepsake. Afew nights ago a epecial policeman, who wears a uniform similar to that of the city po- lice, was held up by footpads at the corner of ‘Twelfth and Halsted streets, and was robbed of awatch and chain and a revolver, It was the day the city police were paid, and the thieves expected a cash baul. Perceiving their mistake, the robbers returned the watch, but kept the revolver for their own safety. Higwaymen have been working the South Di- vision extensively auring the week. The short courts, such as Peck and Harmon, bare been the scene of daring ‘operations Recently they have taken to the bridges, and scarcely a night passes withouta complaint on this score. A poor hoa-carrier, xomg home Friday night, was heid up at Pulk-street bridge by three highwaymen, who robbed him of all bis carnings. The chief “squeal” roported yesterday was that of Thomnaa Lueas, # wealthy St. Louis res{- dent, well-known in sporting circles. He accom- panied Spian and other turf men to the meeting at Adrian Mich., where Mr. Lucas’ horse, Doty, was a contestant. The party returned to this city yesterday morning. and, coming into the city, Mr. Lueas. while aslecp in his berth in a Pullman car, on the Mi ‘an Central Railroad, was robbed of about % cash, a goodly por- tion of which was in gold. There is no clew to tbe thief, MISCELLANEOUS. Albert Lehman and Jobn Fitzgerald are at the Armory charged with selling spurious tick- etstothe Convention to. several people who were not politicians enough to gain admission in the usual way. Ida Mason, Etta Crane, and their male com- Ppanions werearrested yesterday, charged with robbing F.S. Allen, from Michigan, of $60 cash while out hack-riding. The prisonors say Allen spent his money fn a three-days’ spree. and that when they met him he had barely enough to de- fray his own expenses. An owner is wanted at the West Madison Street Station for two volumes of Shakapearo, which bad evidently beon sold by some agent of P.T. Collier, The books wero recovered in the saloon No. 205 West Lake sireot, by OMcor Davis, and were loft there by some “pal” of the thief George Deal, whom the officer acoident- ly shot in an encounter Friday night. A con- ‘iderablequantity of plunder is known to havo been divided at this house during the past week. Peggie Flynn, a notorious character, was yesterday arrested by Officer Thomas Redden on complaint of Johanna Kerwin, of No. 48 West Indiana street, who charged her with stealing a pair of earrings, some furs, and othor articles. ‘The “woman commenced tat- tling, “and the officer recovered at Mary Jane Keneéfick's resort on Clark street all the stolen goods, together with a silvor fruit- knife and nut-pick, which are thought to be the proceeds of some burgiary. It is marked on one side “Burdiok,” and upon the other, “From Fitzgerald, May 4, 1878." Friday night Superintendent O'Donnell re- ceived 2 telegram from the Milwaukee Chief of Police asking him to arrest Franc C. Johnson. a cription of whom was was expeoted to arrive in city yesterday morning on the Goodrich steamer from Milwaukee. Johnecn, ft 1s claimed, stole 2 $100 bill from his employer. Detective Fader Was atthe dock yesterday morning when tho boat arrived, and arrested a man whom he thought tallied with the description, and who hnd $150 in his possession. The prisoner bit- terly denies that he is Johneon, and tt greatly looks ns. if the officer had blundered. The man says he is James Lynch, and that be belongs to Cedarberg. Wis., and was in Mill- waukee only a short time before taking the bout. He came on to see his nephow who is ona death-bed, and though he was Very anxious to get to the house, the police affordod him no opportunity of’ furnishing — bail. Mr. Lyne! says his brother John in «4 sewer-builder at No. 193 La Salle street, ushort balf block from the City-Hall, and that a second brother, Dr. Lynch, well known in this city. is now traveling in Europe. Detective Smith, of Milwaukee, who has been here help- ing Chicago's valiant bluo-conts in bungling affairs, left for home lust night, and he is going w see if some mistike had not been made. ee LATE LOCAL ITEMS. ‘Tre dead body of afemale child, full-grown and wrapped up in a checkered shawl, wasfound ina closct in Lincoln Park at the foot of Me- nomince street yesterday morning. The remains uwait the Coroner at Webster arcnue. Frep D. WArkrns, 37 years of ago, whilo driv - ing a team of horses attached to one of Moody & Waters’ pie-wagons, ran down and almost in- stantly killed at the intersection of Butterfield and Thirty -scventh streets, at 1 o'clock yester- day afternoon, a 2};-year-old girl named Hiuldah Peterson, whose parents live at No. 300 Butterfield street. Dr. “Morley was summoned to attend the little one, but she wus dend before he arrived. The back of the head wns crushed in as if one of the horses bad stepped upon the little one. Watkins claims that it was pares accidental, but he was evi- dently turning the corner at to great speod, else the child would not have been run oyor. Watkins is being hela pending an investigation, and to await the result of the Coroner's inquest. William Whelun, an insurance agent well known to La Salle street. has gone insane through.bus{uces complications, and yesterday attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the river ut Adams street bridge. ie evening Defore he mtempted suicide by taking a beavy dose of morphine. In each Instance Mr. Whelan bas annou his intention before- hand. and his wife, a faithful, devoted, and brave little woman, has been his guardian ngel through all. She was on the watch when he took the drug Fri- day night, and, summoning a physician prompuy. her busband's life was saved. Yos- terday when be left the houso with the avowed intention of drowning himself she followed closely. When he went down the steps at the wert vinduct leading to the dock below the bridge. she wus at hie side imploring him to de- sist. The wife’s presence, a8 is frequently the case with insano men, only angered him, and, rushing to the edge. he threw himsalf over. Her frantic screams brought quickty to the rescue sume laborers who were employed in the vicinity and Officer Treulieb, who coon eucceeded in rescuing him. He was not much the worse for the plunge, and was. takon to his home, No, 93 Centre avenue, in a carriage. A close watch will be kept over him inthe future. atteast until he shows signs of convalescence, which tho physicians say can only come with protracted rest and absence of all mental exertion. Mrs. Whelan and family relatives are all very reticent as to the. causes of Mr. Whelan’s condition. It is said, however, that he bas been hat upon him, put that he was not in realty, 69 mach to blame us might hae ap- peased. Just.as relief was at hand. and he was pout to see bis way clearly out of all difficulties, his mind gave way under tho strain, mentioned elsewhere, the bridges are in the nase ef nighwaymoen, At? o'clock this morn i Jobn Warners of Huntingdon, Ind., was hela’ up and robbed near Van Buren strect bridge of a gold watch and chain worth $175 and $175 cash. Ho recognized one of bis assailants as a railroad man whom ho knew by name at some time or other, but as his pocketbook and diary were also taken he can- not now recall the name. Mr. Wagner says he met this fellow in the city, and had several drinks with him, but he was by no means drunk when he was robbed. ‘ Wait a moment,” snid he at the Armory, a8 he went down into a fob-pocket for another $100-bill, but the thief had gotten that also. At 1:00 this onlay. Officer Samonski shot & thief named Thomas Foran in the left leg below tho knee, while he was attempting to get awa: from bim in a coffce-car at the corner of Clar and Polk streets. Foran bad been in Gifford's saloon. No. 435 Clark strect, and, when Gifford {n order to close his place, put bim out. Foran went out into the roadway and, pickini up 2 brick, hurled it through. a window ant struck Gifford on the breast. In revenge the saloonkeeper told Samonski, who followed Foran into the coffee-car, 2 place where Samonski bas had trouble before. Lawrence Clark, keeper of the car, asked Samonsk! not to intercfere with Foran “until he got through eating. Shortly thereafter Clark pulled Samonsk!'s hat down over his eyes, at the. same time jostling him, and Foran, taking his cuc, promptly fired a shot to intimidute the officer, and ran out. Samonski fired two shots in succession and winged bis man. Foran and Clark are both locked up at the Armory. dozen or two spoons, forks, and knives, ail silver ated, which Foran sold to Clark for $1.60; await an owner xt the Armory. Foran was born in the North Division, and bas spent most of his manbood in Joliet. His pall,” nick- named “ Romeo,” is under sentence to fiftecn years at Toledo. WHITTAKER’S PROTOTYPE. How Danicl Webster Exposed a Man Who Shot Himself Through the Hand After Robbing Himsclf on the High- way. A curious light is thrown on the case of Whit- taker by a story which Mr. Curtis tells in his life of Webster of the alleged robbery and wound- ing of Maj. Goodridge, of Massachusetts, sixty years ago, as investigated and exposed by Mr. Wobster. Mr. Curtis’ narrative isso clear and interesting that we reproduce it in his own words: Goodridge was a person of previous good cbar- acter and respectable standing, who professed to bave been robbed of a large sum of money at about Y o'clock in_the night of Dec. 19, 1816, on the road between Exctor and Newburyport, soon after passing the Essex Merrimac Bridge on his way from New Hampshire into Massachusetts. Among the proofs of the robbery was a pistol- shot through his left hand, recotved, as be said, before the robbers pulled him from his horse, ho and one of his assallants discharging: their pistols at each other On the same instant. He was then, according to his account, dragged from his horse and across a fence into a field, robbed and beaten until he was senseless. On his recovery he went back to tho toll-houso on tho bridge, where he appeared to be for a time ina state of aclirium. Tat he had sufficient sclf-possession tw return to the place of the robbery with some persons who accompanied bin with a lantern, where his watcb, papers, and other articles were found scattered on the ground. On the following day he went to Newburyport and re- mained there ill, at intervals in a state of real or simulated fronzy, for several weeks. Having regained bis hoalth he sot about the dis- covery of the robbers; and 80 general was the sympathy for him ina very orderly community that his plans were alded by the innocent zeal of nearly the whole country side. His first charge wns against the Kennistons, two poor men who dwelt in the town of New Market, N. H., on the other side of the river. In their cellar he tound a plece of gold whioh he identified by a mark which he sald be placod on all bis money, and a $10 note which he also identified as his own. The Kenn'stons wore arrested. examined, and hold for trial. He next charged tho toll- gatherer, one Penrson, as an accomplice; find on ‘his premises,‘ with the ald of a witeh-hazel_conjurer,'he also found: somo of his gold and papers In which it had been wrapped. Pearson was arrested, exam- ined bofore two magistrates and dischal Goodridge then complained against one Taber, a person whe lived {n Boston. Finally he fol- lowed a man named Jackman, to the City of New York, in whose house be swore that he also discovered somo of his marked wrappers. The machinery of an Executive requisition was put into motion and Jackman was brought into Massachusetts and lodged in jail. He and Taber and the Kesnistons were then indicted for rob- bery in the County of Essex. 80 cunningly bad this man contrived his story that the popular belief was entirely with him, The witch-hazel of his evidence probsbly did not disincline the populace to belicre him. But it is oven said that there wore fow members of the county bar who did not regard the case of the Kennistons ns desperate. There wero some, however, who believed Goodridge’s story to be false, and these persons sent for Mr. Webster to undertake the defense of the accused. The indictment against ‘Taber was nolle prossed. That nguinst the Ken- nistons came on for trial at Ipswich in April, 1817, They had nothing on which to rely but their previous good character. and tho negative fact that since tho supposed robbery they hud not passed any money nor were scen to have any,and the {mprobabilities which their advo- exute could develop in the story of Goodridge. ‘The theory of the defense was that Goodridge was bis own robber, and had firod the pistol-shot through his hand. In the power of cross-examining witnesses Mr. Webstor had no superior of the day, and fis rep- utation in this respect doubtiess aided the im- prossion whieh he produced upon the jury. There were traditions which bad comne over the border from New Hampshire of his terrible skill in bafM"ing the deepest plans of perjury and fraud, which excited the jury to the closest at- tention to his method of denling with Goodridge. ‘They saw bis well-concocted story luid bare in allits improbable features, while every nid was given to him by Mr. Webster to develop sugges- tions which would be set off against the theor; that tho latter meant to maintain. But whon all the evidence for and against Guodridge’s narra- uve had beon drawn: out, and it camo to the summing up. there remained two obvious difl- culties in the way of that hypothesis. One of them was that no motive hud been shown for 80 strange an act a4 a man's falsely pretend- ing to bayve been robbed and charging the robbery upon innocent people; the otheg that the theory of Goodridge beimg him- self{ robber apparently made it neccessary to believe that he had proceeded in this fraudulent manufacture of proofs to the extromity of shoot- ing a pistol bulist through his own hand. ‘These were very formidable difficulties for the law of evidence, ns administered in our criminal juris- prudence, very properly regards the absence of motive for an not, the corstnission of which da- pends on circumstantial proof. as one of the im- portant. things to be weighed in favor of inno- cence; ands tothe shocting,it was certainly ina high degree improbable that a man would maim. himeelf in order to maintain a false statement that be had been robbed and maimed by some one olse. But in grappling with these dim- culties Mr. Wobster told the jury that the runge of human motives ia ulimost inflnit; that advsire toavold payment of bis debts if he owed debts, or a whimsical ambition for distinc- tion, might have been at the bottom of Good- ridge’s conduct,and that, havingonce announced himself toa community as man who had been robbed of alarge sum and beaten nearly to denth, he had to go on and charge somobody with the act. This was correct reasoning, but still no motive hed been shown for the original pretense; and if there had not been some de- cisive circumstances developed on the evidence {t fs not easy to say how this casc ought to have been decided. These circumstances mske it necessary to believe that, although .Goodridge had himself discharged tho pistol which wound- ed him, he intended that result. His story was that the pistol of the robber went off at the moment when he grasped {t with hisieft hand, Yet according to the testimony of the phyaicinns who attended him there were no marks of powder on his hand; and the np- ponrance of the wound led to the conclusion that the muzzle of the pistol must have been three or feur fect from his hand, while there were no marks of powder on the siceve of his cont, and the ball passed through the coatas well as the hand. This stato of evidence justified Mr. Webster's remark that “all exhibitions are subject to ac- eident; whether ecrious or farcical they do not always proceed exactly as they ought to do.” Goodridge, he argued, intended to shoot the ball through his cont-sleeve, and-it accidentally per- forated bis hand also. Gouwiridge. however, returned to the charge. Jackmxn Was put ontrialat the next term of the court and the Jnry disagreed. At bis sec- ond tial Mr. Webster defended bim. and be was sequitted: Those criminal proceedings were followed by an action for malicious persocution, instituted by Pearson against Goodndge. Mr. Webster was of ccunsel for plaintiff in this ease. The evidence was now atill’ more clear against Goodridge: 2 verdict for a large sum recovered against him, and the public at Jast saw tho fact judicially established that he had retbod himself. He left Now Enziand a dis- graced mun; but no clow to his motive was over discovered. Twenty yenrs afterwards Mr. Webster was traveling in tho western part of the State of New York; be stopped at a tavern and went in to ask for a ginss of water. The man behind the counter exhibited great agitation as the travelur appronched him, and when he placed the glass of water before Mr, Webster bis band trembled violently, but bo did not speak. Mr. Webster drank the water, turned without saying another word and reéntered his carriage. The man was Goodridge. A Turkish Harem in Paris, New York Home Journal, More than thirty years since there came to re- side in Paris acertain Mehmoud Benayad Pasha, a wealtby Turk, who invested an immense sum of money in the purchase of premises in tho Rue Montmartre, in order to build himself a re- treatin the heart of the city, where he might combine his Oriental lifo seclusion of the harem with the enjoyment of the pleasures of Paris. The retreat was furnished wéth every- aging girl involved in business ‘complications which reflect | thing in Oriental custom, including danoing girls, odalisques, and other luxurics. The neighbors not infrequently wore startled by the sound of revelry by night the gonge and drums, laughter and noiso from. hind the high walls surrounding Bena- yad Pasha’s garden, and curiosity grew So great in the’ mind, of = man milliner living in the Passage du Saumon Lind he built himself a gloriefte on the roof of hi house, from whence he could witness the merry goings on within the Pasha’s harem. | The Pasha grew so indignant at this violation of nis privacy that, In true Oriental fashion, ho in- sisted on purchasing the Passage du Saumon immediately, in order to prevent, by 9 clause in the lease of the houses, any uttempt of the game kind to be mado by the other vcoupants. The Duc de Montmorency, ownor of the prop- erty, was somewhat astonished at tho proposal, and placed a higher price upon it than was con- sistent with tho profits to be derived from the houses. But Bonayad Pacha scorned to bargain, and the whole of the property, from the Rue Montmartre to the Rue Mou- torgued, was transferred to him at once. Benayad Pasha has just_died worth several millions of gold piastres. Ho leaves a marriago portion tocach of his numerous Indies under the especial condition of theif marrying none but unmarried men. The executor 1s bound to pay down 100 ‘Turkish livres (about 2,500 francs) to the bridegroom, besides seventy livros to each bride, moreover. a provision. of all things necossary, to commence housekeeping. The settlement of the question 1s left to the French ‘Ambassador at Constantinople. No restraint is put upun the social condition of the bridegroom, the only obligution imposed upon him being that he shall bo uoproride with a wife. The family of Bonayad, however, refuso to submit to the terms of the will, and it is anticipated that many of the brides may dio of old age before the law suit is Onished. BRADLAUGH’S LIBEL SUIT. A Graphic Account of a Remarkably Queor Caso. London Correspontence New York Times. Bow Street Polico Court and “the Black Hole of Calcutta” are not somuch unlike as many people may Imagine. From 2 o'clock until 6 yesterday 1 was favored with a soat in the “ re- porters’ box” of that stuffy and bad-smolling court. Should it ever be my misfortune to stand at the bar of that “hail of justice,” I should wish, if not speedily roleased, to be promptly convicted, in the hope that I might be relegated to a coll wheroat least I should be free from the human oxhalations of that pestiferous den in which two London Magistrates are con- demned to pass most.of their lives. Iwas at- tracted thither by the suit of Charles Bradlaugh, momber of Parliament, against the British Empire newspaper, for Lbel. The action was taken against the edi- tor, James Edgecombo, and one of the Directors of the Company, 8. C. Lister, 2 wealthy manu- fucturer, The following is the alleged Hbel: “An episode in one of the Sunday evening lectures of Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, now member of Par- linment, ‘The apostle himself is orating, and yery well, too, for he is an excellent speaker, He is lecturing on *God.' ‘If there be a Uod, says the levturer, ‘let Him striko me dead witbin the next five minutes.’ And, amid the breath- Jess silence of the auditory, the atholst takes out his watch and bides the five minutes. This, some dozen yeurs ago or more,was related to me by an eye and ear witnoss, just as I now retail it, hor rible as it reads.” Mr. Bradlaugh conducted his own case; Mr. Pollard was counsel for the defendants. On soveral occasions lately it has been necessary that I should point out to you, in connection with Hbol suits in polico courts, that a recent decision of the Judge has enforced the practice of a Police Magistrate do- clining to nevept evidence of justification where he considers libelous mutter has been published, but at once committing the defend- ant for trial. Mr. Bradlaugh, io opening bis caso against the British Empire, relied on this ruling, and the court was without him at the outset; but eventually Bradlaugh fell a victim to his overeleverness, or, in tho language of the legal profession, he illustrated once more the truism that “the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for n client.” Mr. Bradlaugh is a tall, sqaare-shouldored, ungalnly-looking man, with long hair. His faco bears no signs of shaving, yet It 18 olear of hair, pallid to “pastyness."” A long upper lip, a weak chin, shifty eyes, an intellectual fore- head, and a perpetual thirst—theso are his chict characteristics. He drank fourteen glasses of water in the three or four hours his. caso lasted. He went into the box and sworo (I beg his pardon, “ aftirmed”) that he bad never in his life, anywhere, or under any circumstancos, suid or done what was imputed to bim in the above parusraph. Under cross-examination he “posed ” cousiderably on his theological views, and often turned et bag toward the greasy audience for approtal. If you have never seen the crowd in a London police court you cannot reulize the depth of the Insult conveyed In the tuunt thatthe Liberals got into office by the votes of the “residuum.” The Bow strect au- dieuce is the most God-forsaken crowd I have ever looked upun,—pallid faces, with low fore- heads, sensual mouths, morbid eyes, as hang- dog a lot as ever grinned at profanity or cheored the acquittal of a wide-beator, Heavens! it the reefduum ever rose armed to the teeth in Lon- don, what would huppen? 2 When Bradlaugh had finished, and demanded the committal for trinl of the defendants, Mr. Pollard claimed to offer evidence and also to be heard. Tho Magistrate repented the new rule, and Bradlaugh smiled his sickly, though in- tended to be beaming, smile at tho ‘open- mouthed audience. But the defense found a new polnt, and, aftor alittic consideration, Mr. nupean. tho Magistrate, decided in_favor of the defendants to accopt evidence. Br. Brad- Jaugh had, in cross-examination, admitted that he used to write and lecture under the atylo and name of *Iconoclast,” and that an oath would not bind him, us he does uot believe In future rewards or punishments. Also, in cross- examination, ho said he had lectured against the Christian religion, and he hud probably In one of his Sun- day lectures snid there is no God. But he denied in the most positive and emphatic way ever saying or doing what bad beon imputed to him by the Brilish Empire. Mr. Field, a Baptist minister, was Grst called for the defense. He said a lecturer onlling himself “Iconoclast,” seventeen years ago, had asked him to step on to the platform at St. George's Hall, Southwark, and pray to God to strike him dead, to prove that God had no power over him. Field, how- ever, had to retire in confusion when he de- clined to identify Bradiaugh as the lecturer in uestion. Bradlaugh chuckled aloud at this de- eat of the Baptist, and, when a stupid looking fellow, who said bis name was Richi Budge, an Irishman, took the stand, Bradinugh's friends among tho audienco laughed, if such a crowd can be sald to exercise such a purely buman faculty as that of laughter. judge certainly did look stupid, and ho sald he was no scholar; that he could do little more than write hisname. But there was a quict, dogged calm in the fellow's demeanor as the examina- uon went on, which drove away tho Bradlaugh chuckle and brought into the pallid, audacious face of the theoretical radical and atheist an expression of anxiety. Budge, with great cir- cumstantiality, stated on his onth that, in 1853-"4, when ho was living at Tavistock os a stone- mason, he heard Charles Bradlaugh lecture. He belioved that Mr, Bradiaugh before bim was the same. “{ verily bolieve it,” he said, “though you are altered; you are stouter; you were then a young man, but your manner is the samo; the way you talk, and, gon- erally, I feel sure you are the man, though will not swear to it positively.” This was in reply to Bradlaugh, and on the following evidence given by Budge: ‘The leot- urer, whom everybody spoke of as Charies Brad- laugh, said: ‘Im. going to say something now that many of yon may hardly believe. Lam go- ing to show you that there Is no Géd. If there isn God, Lchalienge Him to strike me dead in five minutes.’ The lecturer then took out a watch and keld it up. When the flve minutes had passed Bradlangh sald: ‘There, now, you see that there is nv God who bas any. power over me." Bradhwugh cross-examined Budgo at great length, but be did not succeed in shaking this evidence, while he got: from the witness the names of soveral other persons who were pres- ent at the lecture, and Induced him tostrengthen the evidence ns to Jdontiey. witht the assertion that he told thecrowd bis name when he de- clared there wis no God and challenged Him to strike him dead. At6 o'clock the Magistrate adjourned the case fora week. Mr. Pollard said_he bad five or six other witnesses to call. The Magistrate said he would honr the evidence, though be snould not take upon himself to decide the case; be shuuld send it for trial by a Jury. It may, therefore, bo concluded that we have enter upon along course of litigation. 1t will be interesting when and ig in the the case comes before A te bands of famous barristers. Mr. Lister is in no way liable for the paragraph to which Mr. Brad- pug objects. But he ts u hard-headed Lan- cashier Tory, witn x pocketful of money, and he is just the man to fight rosolutely. LIGHTS GONE OUT. High on a bald and overhanging cliff, ‘That mocks the se and frowns upon the sands— A ghostly presence in a lonely plaze— e crumbling ight-house stands, No hand swings back tho battered oaken door, No fontfall sounds upon the winding stair; But for the swaliowa, not a sign of life Invests it anywhere, 4 And, as the darknoss falls, its lump no more Vies with the stars to cheer the gloomy main, And guide the eager vessel as she hastes Back to the port again. So from a life that oncs was wondrous bright— Like the Itulian heavens, unceasing fares ‘The light that blessed it has forever fled, And all is darkness there. 1 ‘The rayless beacon may be trimmed agait And burn as brightly aa it burned befores” But who shull ever to the dark, dark life The olden tlame restore? Anson G. Chester in Home Journal. ———— Germany's Future Empress. é Hour. ‘We Are all of us mortal, or at least nearly all of us?” (as a famous preacher at Versailles once sald before Louis X1V.), so Kaiser Wilhelm will one day descend into the tomb of his ancestors hen this hap« and leave his throne to “Pritz”” W1 ns it will not be an Emperor who will ascend, ut two Emperors—the one nominal, the other actual. When Fritz comes into power the “Em- ror Victor” (a& she is already callod) will Feally reign, for the Kron Princessin Victoria is one of the most remarkable persons of our time —a “gront Catherine,” but with all the virtues which that illustrious potentato despised. When Lord Clarendon had occasion to ase the Princess Royal nt Berlin Just after her marriage (she was then about 18), he expressed himself a8 “moro than astonished at the profoundly statcs- manlike views of H.R. H.," and atthe “com~ prehensive judgment she passes on the policy of Europe and the duties of a constitutional sovereign.” ‘These qualities baye matured year by year, anda decided modification will probably occur in the policy of all Europe when the “ Emperor Victor governs Germany in the name of Fred- erlok Wilhelm.” The only trouble with her is that sho has a very arbitrary temper, consequent upon which her relations with her husband have been no- toriously unpleasant for some years pust, and Queen Victoria bas had moro than once to smooth the differences between her daughter and her son-in-law. A SLAVE PRINCESS. The Strange Story of a Remarkable Female Adventurer—How a Convict Slave Impersonated a Marchioness— Tho Wanderings of Sarah Wilson—A Missing Miniature. Correspondence New York Evening Post. Neswrort, R. L, May 17.—It was a common practice in some of tho Amerioun colonies to aell white persons into slavery for a limited numberof years; but it was not common to term this sort of servitude slavory, although it was such to all intents and purposes. The per- son sold was called a sorvant, and the inden- ture that bound him or her during the period of servitude gave tho master complete control over his servant, with the right to punish him severely for an offense, orto hunt him down If he attempted to escape from bondage. Some of the old laws of Virginia under this head wero harsh in the extrome, and, if they wererigidly enforced, as we may presume ‘was the case, hard indeed must huve been the lotof any bond servant who incurred the dis- plensure of his master. The source from which many sorvants of this kind were obtained was the courts of England, whore tt was customary to transport to America prisoners who had been convicted of offenses not punishable by death, but who were too great offenders to be kept at home in overcrowded jails. They were accordingly shipped to the colonies and were sold for a limited number of years, usually seven. An announcement like that which follows, which apperred in the Pennevania Gazette as late us June 28, 1734, was at one time very common: “Just arrived from Londonderry, in the brig Peggy, Capt. Stewart, 8 number of fine, healthy men and women servants, and some smull boys, whose times are to be divyposed of tu the best bidders by the Captain, on board, or by Camp- deli & Kingston, on the wharf.” A convict sont to this country in 177] created a sensation for n time, and so extraordinary was her cureer that her name bas found a place in history. Itig true that where it appears In the records of the tiimos It is but a bare men- tion; but the dozen or twenty lines givon to her in Doran's Lives cf the Queens of England, of the House of Hanover, shows that her adventures In America were the sub- ject of discussion, perhaps of mirth, inthe draw- ing-rooms of Queen Churlotte. In that brief outline there are a few errors. The story, as I have been able to gather it from differont sources, is as follows: In August, 1770, a woman who had no busi- ness thore found her way, by means of the rivate stairs, into the apartments of Queen Sharlotte. Entering the room in which the cen and the Duchess of Ancoster were sit- ting. sho took a survey or overything there with the greatest composure. Tho Queen and the Duchess were too much alarmed to expel her; but at length the Duchess had the presence of mind to ring the bell, which brought a page, who with diiculty forced the intruder to retire. But little moro was thought of this picce of presutoption; but a short time after the affair tho Queen's appartments were again entered and this time a cabinet was broken open and robbed of valuable jewels and a miniature of the Qucen. The thicf roved to be a woman named Sarah Wilson, the maid of the Hon. Miss Vernon, sister of Lady Grosvenor, and who was probably the same jw.man who had preyiously enteréu the apartments. She was apprettonded, fried, and condemned to death, but through the intlucnce of her mistress the sentence was com- muted to transportation to America, there to be sold for a period of seven years,—a step that created somo stir in London, for there were persons who complained that in this way the gallows had been cheated. Inli7l Sarah Wilson, sent out in a.convict ship, janded in Maryland, where she wns ex- posed for sale, and was bought by William Du- Vall, of Bush Oreck, Frederiok County, to whom she was kegel? bound for the stipulated torm of years. Duvall took hor to his residence, where sbe remained in his service, npparently con- tented, till an opportunity offered to make gi her escape. From Bush Creek she found her way into Virginia, and passed through North Carolina toSouth Carolina, where she felt that she had put too wide a‘strip of country between herself and her master to ron- der a return to slavery probable. With no fcar of arrest to haunt her, she assumed tho title of the Princess Susanna Caroline Matilda, and a: sertc® that sho was asister of the Queon. The rich- ness of sumo of her apparel, her jewels, und the miniature of the Queen, gave color to her state- ment, which was generally believed. Having gained a footing shu traveled from plantation to plantation, assuming the air of royalty, and ‘with eo much dignity that many persons thought they were honored when they were ptr- mitted to kiss ber hand. To all porsons who found their way into ber presonco she was gracious, aud she was liberal in the promise of favors from her own hand and from that of her royal sister. Ono woman was to brave a place near her person; a man was to be at the head ot a regiment; somo persons were to be honored with preferments in the Treasury, while others wero to bo assigned to prominent positions in ‘the army and navy. Thore was no end to her liborality, and her newly-found friends were equally obliging, for they placed considerable sumsat her disposal. For a season she lacked nothing— nothing till her fame reached the more northern colonies, where Duvall, who had hoard these re- markatio stories, Tecornized in the description of the Princess Matilda bis runaway bond- woman, and forthwith sought to recover her. Tho first step was to advertise her, which he did in the tollowing manner: “ Busan Creek, Frederick Co., Md., Oct. 1, 1771. —Ran away from the subscriber, a Convict Sor- vant named SARAH WILSON, but has changed her name to Lady Susanna Caroline Matilda, which made the public believe that she was her Majesty's sister. Sho bas a blemish in her Tight eye, black roll’d hair, atoops in the shoulders, and makes 2 common practice of writing and marking her clothes with a crown and B. Whoever secures the said servant wom- un, or wiil take her home, shall receive tive pis- toles, bosides all cost of charges. é © Wa. DUVALL. “ T entitle Michael Dalton to seurch the City of Philadetphia, and from there to Charleston, for the said woman.” fein a document like that in circulation, acked by the efforts of her master to run hor down, Sarah Wilson could make no longer con- tnuing In any one place. She went “from pillar to post,’ here to-day and there to-mor- row, still finding some one credulous onough not only to believe her story, but also to Iend her money and help her on. But the field was becoming more and more circum- scribed. Realizing this, and with the certalnty that if she romained longer where she was she would soon_be arrested, she made a bold push for New York, whero she hoped that sho would be lost in the crowd. But New York proved to be equally dangerous ground, and she took passage for Newport in one of the packets then plying on the Sound. Here, too, she found that her fame preceded her, for her arrival was thus announced in the newspaper on the day, under date of Nov. 29, 1773: 3 “ Last Tuesday arrived here from New York the lady who has pussed thruugh several of the Southern colonies under the name and character of Caroline Matilda, Marchionessde Waldegrave, ete.’ ‘This was almost the last move of Sarah Wil- son, for before the year was out she was again in tho hunds of Duvall, who took ber back to Maryland to serve out not only the remainder of her time. but also an additional number of years, which was nlwaye a part of the penalty for attempting to run away. Bofore her days of bondnge were over the storm of the Revolution broko over the country, and, in the whirlwind that followed. we load ‘all trace of the woman and her history. Remarkable as were her adventures, they appear more so when we are told that s¥e was wanting In personal attraction, that she had a dlemish in her right.eye, and stooped in the shoulders: but the curious part of it all is that a convict was able, after her conviction, not only to retain in her posacsston the jewels and the miniature she bad stolen, but also to bring away dresses that wero in keeping with her assumed position: and yet the story that she did so can scarcely be questioned. The Jew- els, when they pared from her bands, were soon Jost sight of, but what became of the miniature? ‘That isa conundrim that the most lefatigable of bric-a-brac ovllectors wi find it difficult to solv ould ees Swearing Punished by Law. Pitsburg (Pa.) Post. Judge Pershing. of Schuykill County, has just decided 2 case in bis court which presents some almost forgciten features of the law of tke State agalosy swearing. John H. Bashoro, an excita- le and somewhat profune citizen of the county, ona recent occasion got of a volley of twonty- three separate and distinct oaths, for which he was arrested, tuken before a Justice of the Peace, and, under the law of April 22 1734. fined $16.08 This fine be refured to pay. He was ‘Sommnltted. 14 Jail, es ped was taken before ig OD a writ of certiorari. of ri provides that: ne ae “ person of the age of 16 ye: ward shall profanely curse or swearby the nase of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, ev Person so offending, being thereof convic Shall forfelt and pay the sum of 67 cents for whosoever of the age of 16 years orupward shall curse or swoar by nny other name or thing than as aforesuid, and shail bo convicted thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 40 cents for such curse or onth.”” ‘Exception was taken to the ruling of the Jus- tice on the ground that the arrest of Bushore should have been by summons and not by war- rant, and suit should have been bronght by an individual informer instead of in the name of the Commonwealth. These exceptions were overruled, the decisious of tho higher courts being that the action was properly brought. But the Justice failed to return the evidence taken before him, and this omission Judge Pershing decided to be fatal to the proceedings, and he thereupon reversed the decision of the magistrate. The point of the decision, however, isin the pithy conclusion with which Judge Pershing wound up his decision. Ho says: * ‘The general prevalence of profane swearing indica tes that the statute under which this de- fendant was convicted had long been buried out of sight. Perhaps its resurrection in this case may accomplish some good, by showing those who bave no regard for the law of God that the law ot the land imposes on them a penalty of from 40 to 67 cents, to be followed by imprison- ment, accompanied with a diet of bread and water, on refusn] to pny foreach and every time ne pollute the atmosphere with thelr pro- fanity.” MARIE LOUISE. A Souvenir of a Forgotten Empress, St. Loute Repuntican, Loxpox, May 25.—4 Fienna correspondent says: A most painful sensation bas been caused here by *he sudden insanity of vue of Austria's highest dignitaries, Prince William of Monte- nuevo, son of the Archduchess Marie Louise, formerly wife of Napoleon I., by her second and morganatie marriage with Count de Neipperg. Pecuntary trouble was the cause of his mis- fortune. Z This turns us back to a page of almost for- gotten history. Few persons remember that the wife of Napoleon and ex-Empress of France consoled herself for the loss of husband and throne, first by an illicft unfon, and afterward bya morganatic—or “left-handed"—marriage with her own chamberlain, the Count de Neip- perg mentioned above. Fewer still, we fancy, were aware that a son was born to them, -that rather interesting fact being omit- ted from most, {If not all of the bi- ographies. Indeed, Murie Louise, though an Austrian Archduchess and daughter of Francis I. and Maria Theresa of Naples, only attracted the world's notice while she shared the fortunos of the Corsican soldier, and when sep- arated from him at once sank intoobscurity and contempt. Born in 1791, she was married to Na- poleon in 1810, he hoping by this marriage to ob- tain an heir who would perpetuate bis empire and dynasty, and ulsoto get a foothold in the Royal fam ilies of Europe; Metternich and his master hoping thereby to gain time,for the par tial restoration of their badly crippled Govern- ment, 60 that when opportunity offered Austria might be in condition to take vengeance upon France. Metternich, in bis recently published memoirs, virtually cenfesses the game which involved the sacrifice of the Archduchess, and tells the arguments he used to secure her unwilling consent, Her reluctance was not to be wondered at. From the cradle she had been taught that the French were a nation of cutthroats, and that Napoleon was a horrible monster,—a second “scourge of God," sent for the chnstisement of a wicked and perverse gen- eration. Yet, if we may trust contemporary testimony, she seems to have been very agreo- ably disappointed. All authorities agrec—and her subscquent conduct showed it—that she was destitute of strong fecling of any kind; a weak and frivolous character; a ,proty plaything | rather , than A com- panion. Young, fresh, and handsome,— “a pure pink and whito Deauty,"—she appears to have fascinated Napoleon as much as it was ossible to fascinate such a man, and he treated er with the utmost kindness from beginning to end of their brief married life. Tho birth of a son, the luckless King of Rome, deepencd his attachment for the mother, and when, in 1813, he left Paris to lead the army im 8 desperate and disastrous campaign, she wns nominated Regent. How Ittle she deserved this affectionate confidence was proved the next year, the fatal 184, Refus- ing, on the plea of ill-health, to share his exile in Elba, she entered into negotiation with the allied powers and received the Duchiesof Parma and Placentia and retired thither with the hus- band ad interim—Neipperg. There she re- mained until her death, Dec. 18, 1847. Napoleon felt thedesertion keenly, but in con- versations at Biba and St. Helena always spoke of her kindly, attributing her heartless conduct to family intluence rather than to real motive. Yet he called the Austrian marriage “an abyss covered with flowers,” recognizing when too late the blundor and came he committed in divorc- ing Josephine for such a puppet as Maria Louise. “The whirligig of time” brought its trevenges.” The son of Napoleon and Marie Loutse died Duke of Reichstadt at the age of 21, and while be lived was a mere cipher in the Court which hated bis father’s name. The son of Josephine, Eugene Beauharnats, mingled his blood with that of a long line of Kings, and hor grandson, as Napoleon IIL, ruled France for twenty years. Josephine will be tenderly re- membered ag long as history lasts. Marie Louise has no better immortality than Neipperg. HELPER’S RAILROAD. From Alaska to Patngonia—A Scheme Which Leaves Eads and De Lesseps Far in the Rear. Washington Uorrespondence New York Times. The most romarkable project which has been Drought to the attention of the members of the National Legislature this session is one which bas been conceived and supported by Hinton Rowan Helper, once famous as the author of “Tho Impending Crisis.” a book which played no insignificant partin the days immediately preceding the Rebellion. Mr. Helper is a native of North Carolina, but is now a resident of St. Louis. He belleves that he is the agent chosen by the genius which watches over the New World to induce the people to build “a longitudinal mfdland double-track steel railway, from 2 point high in North America, running more or less southwardly through Mex- ico and Central America, looking ultimately to such necessary and gradual extonsions at either end, from time to timo, as will eventually place Bohring’s Strait and Cape Horn and all the in- vermediato localitics in uninterrupted and con- tinuous overland communication by steam and by telegraph.” By the side of this great back- bone railway the schemes of Eads and De Les- sops and our transcontinontal railways are but Pygmies m the presence of 2 giant. Mr. Helper isa pleasant gontlemen, who does not seem to belong to the class from which the inmates. of insane asylums are taken. He fs suffering from asevere attack of that uliar enthusiasm which Is acharacteristic of the people of the Southern States, and which is as astonishing as itis inexplicable to the practical men of the North, Tho Southerner who finds on his land alittle trickling mineral spring at once secs asocond Saratoga springing up around it, and places such a fabulous price upon it that mea. with money to invest puss him with x pitying smile. Thoreafter he enjoys his property by raising it ata corner grocery. It is this feci- ing which has prevented the development of Southern mineral wenlth by Northern capital. An enthusiastic reverence for one’s own prop- erty, whether material or mental, is a charac- teristic Which is prominent in muny Southern States, and one which has led Southern men into many impracticable schemes. Views which would be considered indications of insanity in the North are cherished and advanced in the South by men who are praised for their concep- ton. If a scheme has airy grandeur, it is hailed as the proper offspring of the Southern intellect, and ull cousideratious of a practical nature are overlooked. Mr. Helper is not a crazy man, although be publishes a letter in which he ex- presses the hope that such an intense earnest- ness and enthusiasm may be awakened through- out all the countries, from: Alaska to Pata- gonix, inclusive, as will lend to the granting of all the requisit Governmental guar- antees, and privileges, and charters by or be- aero ey October, 1882.” In his mind's ye be sces the great enterprise begun on that day, with 150,000 luborers at work onthe several sections of tho linc. He secs the great rond finished sevon years therenfter, and its rolling- atock bearing to St. Louis the people, products, fauna, tora, and the minerals of every nation botween the Arctic and the Antarctic Seas, to be exhibited in a stupendous. world's fair held there three yoars later, on the four-bundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. In order that the peoplo of “Alaska, Patagonia, and other countries may comprehend the glory of this enterprise. and that even the children of the Aleuts may cry for the “ backbone” rail- way, he has offered $5,000 in prizes to be awarded forthe three troatises in prose and two in ‘try which shall most vigorously and truth- ully advocate the undertaking. This monoy was received In July, 1879, by a committee of three who had been chosen to examine the and poems and distribute pe prieas 0 pI essays SL, $1,200, and $1,000 for the treatise and $1,000 and $50J for the poetical efforts. This committee is made ny of the Hon. Thomas Allon, President of the Iron Mountain & South- ern Railway; Carlos S. Greeloy, Recelver of the Kansas Pacific Railway; and’Dr. William ‘TP. Harris, the well-known disciple of Hegel. and Superintendent of public schoolsin St. Louis. President C. B. Burnham, of the St. Loufs Bank of Commerce, says that the money has been placed in his bank, paynble Dec. 1, and the com= mittee has acknowledged the receipt of the cer- tficate of depusit for the same, payable to the order of any two of tts members. Mr. Allen Mr. Greeley, and Dr. Harris, in a letter to Mr Helper, express “ardent hopes, braced by a high degree of confidence,” that his expectations may be realized in all’ their maguitude saad grandeur, within the time speci ically men- Uoned.” Mr. Helper advises those. who may compete for ‘his prizes “to detach themselves most completely from e' species of fiippancy and frivolity, from everything like superticiality and insincerity, and dive deep dor fragable and’ imperishable ‘facts "and avers “elevate themselves to tho lofticer newt @ sublime {dens and ennobling sentiigen gus of preasions, wheroby they may rightfully ani ex umpbuntly captive the head. fascinate thet and enrapture the soul.” Nothing equal eae Helper’s sublime tights of Imagination hes Me penred in Wnehington since the Govern published the book, notieed some time agote fimes, in which Prof. Edward Fontain the Loulsiana, deseribed tho inestimable becsgt which the application of bis methodof draitee™ called Ekmuzesis, to the Desert of Sahara e swamps 01 ¢ Pontchartri upon the world at largo. ‘ain Would confer r. Helper sought for the fut of the Amerieas Continent ur eee polls Which to manage his great“Three Amero Intercontinental Hallway,” and at fret bop eee ous thoughts of settling in Mexico; buthe coh chose St. Louis, convinced that in one hia years that city would be the greatest tn World. Ho belleves that St- Louis wifi poagt® at Ionst $100,000.00 from the railway, whiem- his opinion, will be worth $3,000,000,000 to Nun America, the same amount to South Amegae and §1,600,000,000 to Mexico and Central Amenc? But the pecuniary advantages are only a ail e benefits which will flow from the “Every intellectual, moral, soclal,~ civil, political, and Industrial interest of ma kind will be advanced; and, as an inevitableney delightful result of the wsthetic culture which will prevail, the most simple and unafectey amenities, elegances, refinements, and pariti of life will everywhere increase and abound." There bas been published in St. Louis 9 pamphlet containing Mr. Helper’s prospectus and letters relating to the Tallway sent to him by several persons. Among thom is L. Placide Canonge, of New Orleans, pronounced by Mr, Helper and one Prof. Jumes Wood Davidson t be the most brilliant Franco- American and dramutist of the present period.” Canonge says it is by no means improbable thay the pivot of the world should change its plaog, and that “the Americans should, in thelr ium become the centre and standard of all civil tion.” He regards the railway aos a vertebra) column which will aid that magnificent consum. mation. ‘ Whut a superb spectacle that would be,” he adds, “of the giant of this clvillzation proudly reclining his head on the westerly shore of Hudson Bay, and laving his feet in the Strait of Magellan. One more effort, ang there is, grandly stretching himself out to the very perimeters of the two les!” Mr. Canonge has fay ‘Mr. Helper with several pages of nonsensical rubbish, of which the following {sa specimen: “Your proposition imparts stand! and strength to those other resolute and gigantic schemes in which, so tospeak, are concreted: crystallized the predestined aspirations and Ine tentionalities of mankind, now agitated and os. cillating with a spirit of unrest aroused by the consciousness of an unduly lengthening pert od Os imperfect advancement in the world's weal” The Rev. Dr. Bowman, of Atlanta, Ga., sen a letter in which a description of his religions views and work is curiously mixed with his flattering opinions of a railway of such “ uni and preéminent grandeur.” Contemplat of the undertaking causes the heart of Mr, Natt Atkinson, of Asheville, N. C., to swell with emotions of pride. “If I were in Con. gress.” said Mr, Atkinson, “and yon shotld come to the National Government for sid in this most ponderous and {mportant international project, [ should, if assured of rea sonable codperation on the part of the Central and South American Republics, feel it my duty tovote you and yourcoworkersaround million, if so large asum should be found to be neces sary tosecure the construction of the road.” Mr. Atkinson would be wonderfully generous with the people's money to a native of his State, like some other Southern men who have oppore tunities which he has not yetsecured. Lewis A, Curmer, of Olean, N. ¥., says that the present is undoubtedly an auspicious period “ for- inviting to your enterprise the attention of that large and influentiul class of American citizens who prudently combine and adjust within them- selves the true principles of business and pa triotism,” but remarks that capitalists will want to know how great dividends they will receive on theirinvestments. This collection of letters is so unique thatit ts difficult to resist the temptation to present more extracts. Enrique Parmer, of St. Louis, remarks that the scheme takes his breath away, * with a sort of ecstatic pleasure.” The feasibill- F and grandeur of it loom up before him “ dis- inct and brilliant, with the cbarming grace of a new evangel.” and the practicability of the an- dertaking coufronts him ‘ with the force of a positive demonstration.” The last of these cor respondents to be noticed here is Thomas Barnes, of Ontario, Canada, who sees In the raile way the means of rescuing the peopleof the commonwealths of the torrid zone from anarchy, superstition, bizotry, Ignorance, and poverty, Mr. Barnes is more practical than eome of bit companions. He sugecets the location of the road along the line of the one hundredth parak lel of longitude, reckoning from Greenwich, and urges the importance. of a junction with the Canada Pacific. From that junction he woul build two branches, one extending to the south. west cornerof Hudson Bay, and the other te the shore of ice-bound Alaska. Perhaps it is not strange that the Times’ com respondent arose from a perusal of this pam- phiet with a feeling that he had been in thecom- pany of a band of lunatics. and yet Mr. Helper is far from being crazy, and his supporters are probably respectable gentiemen and useful members of society. No one will assert that Dr. Harris, President Allen, and Receiver Greeley are out of their hends, but they have expressed a high degree of confidence” that the rail from Alaska to Patagonia will be ues by Oct, 14, 1892,’and with $5,000 in their bands they await the presentation of prose and poetical writings which are to thrill the baifbreeds of the Aleu- tian Islands and the nomads of Patagonia wits expectation of the double track of steol raile which is to bring to them the blessings of ctw {lization which has produced the genius of Ma Helper. ODE TO THE CUCUMBER. Cool, crispy, verdant, huscious fruit, Though scourged with witlings' stripes, For love thou need’st not press thy suit— Thou holdest us with gripes. What time thou’rt in the market-place, A dozen for a nickel, Forbidden fruit with tempting face ‘To get us in a pickle; Or lying near the garden path, Some simple Ind, ini frolic, Purloins thee, bringing down the wrath Of conscience and of colic; Or sliced in vine; in haste, Thou makest all food sweeter— ‘Thus doubling up the joys of taste, ‘And doubling up the eater. Child of the dew, from Asia’ Dyspeptics may deride us; We'll not expose thee in our rhyme— Thy wrongs are all inside us. clime, ‘Well may revenge heal all thy smarts— A vengeance gastronomic; Thine, unilke crimes that weigh the heark. Lies heavy on the stomach. Thy slain are scattered o'er the earth, Pulssant Ku-Klux cumber; Thy form, Sih pray of vanished worth, Should mark their place of slumber. And shall we rear this fruit a; y And of it be partaker? ea oe We taste, and answer in our pain, “Yes, we've put in an acher.” YOUTH’S ROMANCE, Should I live to be a hundred, I could ne’er fur get the day When the drums and fifes were playing and my lover marched away. How I watched his slender figure in its soldier suit of blue, ‘Till it vanished in the distance—and my heart Went with it, tool We were younz and we were foolish, andwe ne'er bud promised aught; But we knew we loved each other, and we gave no further thought— Only, when the war was over, he Was coming ack again: What the need toask a surety we should love each other then? Well! the years wore slowly onward, and the War at last was done, And my soldier, too, marched homeward with the Inurels he bad won; the And we met Hue few and speedy were greetings that wo said— For he'd “learned to love another"; and for m® —well, I was wed. Youth and all its fond illusions are for me for ever o'er, And Isit and dream at twilight for the futur® now no more; Yet my memory will quicken and my heart leap up anew When f: sce a slender figure in a soldier-sult of Osnkost, Wis. M. E. HARMOS. ————__. Jenny Lind, as is well known, long sines retired into private life. She now inhabits e charming residence in South Kensington, situ- ated so near to that of ime. Albani that great prima donna of the present, and she of the Past, can look out upon each other's windows Mme. Jenoy Lind Goldschmidt is now an elderly lady, and {s in very fragile health, but ber pe eyes and kindly smile retain the sweetness te used to lend such a charm to the countenance the world’s idol of old. She has withdrawa i most entirely from all participation in the at in of the world of music, being only interests 0 the Bech Society. She speake very warmly the United States and of its people, pronow pare the American ladies to be among the most tT yated and refined that she ha3 ever ae Notwithstanding the long years that have ola) since the epoch of her great triumphs, sno Teor retains her bold upon the sympathies and #0 tions of her former admirers. The Royal fame ily of England, for instance, are her firm friends, and the Princesses are frequently note bered among her visitors. Owing to ber del 4 health she receives but very few callers. Soe life fs one of peaceful retiremont and domes™s happiness. There is something very mp: SAW. about this tranquil sunset of a life whose ‘Was £0 troubl ‘and whose noontide was 00a