Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1880, Page 9

Me mes of » Sobivehy so Nholy apn cy tho dcfonse, and vure WH CHICAGO 2 COUR Judge Blodgott’s Decision in the Barbed-Wire Fence Case. ghe Ralph Caso Sont to the Jury— The Judge's Charge, Jones Vi Jones—The Pretty Mil- Hiner of Kansas City. ~ gcord of Indgmonta, Now Suits, Orimi- nal Business, Eto, BARBED-WIRE FENCES. Avery Important decision, Involving snittlons of dollars, was ty le yesterday by Jutgo Mlodg- et,after conference with Judge Druminond, Wihin the ast year or so tha Washburn & Moen Mantrfacturing Company, owning a large pumler of patente for making barbed-wirte for fences, have bean a number of suits: oxnlnst Tivere parties for infelngement of patents, and thedecision yesterday wis in these casen, Tho defenses were that the devices In question wore pot patenuitila, Deeartse, front tho tite of tho wt, I reyttined only mecha nical “amt aud not Inventive genta to eon drt thins nlao, the ‘patents were yold forwant of novelty; also, becuse tho claims contained {1 {ho rulasuus were not found sn tho orginnt zpecientionss and, lustly, that even if tho patents wore yattd tha defendants did not fafringeon thom, ‘Tho Judge, iu deeldine the qe sald tut tho proof fallud to watlafy bin tbat barticd-wire for fenchiug purposes had ever: been publicly known or used prior to com- plalnauts’ Inventious In such a manner os todos foat the latter for want of novelty, The gon- fleting testimony loft Bo much doubt ns to tho retwil existence of tho various barbed-wiro feners, orany of thom, as to muke it at lenst yoate ground on Which to defent a patent, The burden of proof was on the defendant to wow hoyond any fale doubt the prior knowledge and use’ relicd on, It wos nualy tho case, when any valuable dkenvery was made, or any new machine of great utility’ Invewtg, that tho ntiention of tho people hu been turned to the subject previous Jyand experlinents had boen made, Many ex- periments might bavu beon unsuccessfully tried, arrlviiug Vv wir, yot falling short of, the de- fred result. “ho invention, when perfected, night be tridy sald to be tha culminating point ofmuny experhinents, but though tho dnventor bid profited indlreetly by others’ work, that gave them no riizht-to clutin u share of the honor ofthe stecessful invention. ‘he testimony as fothustateof tha urt showed that foneo wire, and wire fences, und Wires composed of two oF more strands twisted or tal together, were okt atthe tiny: Hunt and Gilden enterud the told, and that fences, lows before Tints fvention, hud been arined WILK spikes or other sharp pros fectiug Dolnts tor the purpose of inaking them more effective burriers. ‘Tho use of ple ef, pikes on nren raliings, or broken glass on toolupel wally would come under a simitnr dead; but the most that could be witid of them would be thut they nerrowed tho field for tho exer of luventive raculty and limited tho rie of tho patents, As to the question of patentability, a device to be patented must, Of course, be tho result of [n= ative genius, aud tot & wnero mevhanical Maptation Of old thiigs to new uses, It wits, UWEY ET, cxeoollligly ditticult to draw tho divid~ fog ‘ne between the two. Lf barbed wire had been applied to any othor use It would not hive reuired Inventive skill to afterward apply tt to fences; but therc wns neevidence that such bil been tho, » Itrequired fnvention tu devies and midtics i burbod wire whieh could bo used for Hicew In the nbsunve of nny othor Cost, courts badasstimed that the fact of the ncceptunce of anew device or cumbination by the publle, and putting it into extensive use, was evidencg that iiwns tho product of invention, In other words, uly was sugueative of oritnulity. ested by that rule of utility, tho record abundantly showed that the device In question had been aecepted by the public to an extent which had hurdly here tofore followed tho most successful Inventions. Ttsutuity must. be considered a6 i conceded fact. It made posstble the cultivation ‘of tho extensive prautrics of the West, the pampus tho atoppes of Ruxsiu, it wis imposible, and. had even, ton rent extent, abracly superseded the weot woolen tonces In tho Umbered portions ofthe country, Nor was tho objections to the Tehsucs valld, for tho specifications in tho orly- foal und the relasued patents wore substantial theautue, No matorinl ehinge was introdu “tad whitover chauuie was mainte wits for tho pu fare of giving polnt or direction to tho: tnyen+ lon now claitned, ‘Tho patents must, therefore, behold to be valld, and x decrce granted to favor of the complninunts as prayed, THE RALPIE CASH, Tho trinl of William J, Ralph, for subgrantion of perjury fn tho Ayor match-bond case, was ro- funed yesterday morning in tho United States District Court. Chorloy eed, the defendant's Attorney, had roturned from his brief vuention, andappeured In his usual good aplrits, Ralph binself took the stund, and procecded to testify fohisown behuif. Of course ho didn't know what was fn the altidavit to the bond, and dida't know that nis wife signed tho bond untllfilalo so Juformed him, Witness wout to Judge Bangs, *ho examined him genorully a8 to his wife's Property, Hule begun the negotiations by ro- marking that if ho could get 4 bond bo would Harta mateh-factory at South Englewood, oud bromising to rent. a curriugo-fuotory which stood Upon Mra, Itatph’s property for the purpose of Oumverthiyy it into the future match-fuctory, Nelther he nor hig wife was promised anything orrvcelyed unytbing for signing tha bond, On the cross-oxnimination, Italph teatifivd that he wag not In the bablt of golng on bonds, and when soveral cases wero mentioned in which ho bad figured us bondsman he wuiformly answered “Idisremumber,"” Tuls elused tho testimony, and tho cnse was In Abapo to bo argued bofore the Jury, Gen, Leake Went over thu teatlmony nt somo length, “con- thisting the on-paper showlug In tho alldavit With tho rent frets rearurdinig tho alloxed prop- erly as disclosed by the ovidenee, and clilming, la brio, that both Rtulph and his Wife knew tho Ailldwvit to bo talsy when tho Jormar procured to latter to awear to it. Sie. Iteed wont ut the’ Jury by romarking that & vordict of seuilty sugalnat Ralph wos vire Mully nu vordiot at gullty ugeingt Mrs. Italph who wis not on trial in this particular caso, a who was therofere not pormitted, under tho op: fratlon of whargh and unjust luv, to tell her flory, Under the statuta, it must bo shown that dirs. Itntph swore to what she did not_bellove to true, and this, Mtr, eed cuntonded, was on ms inpossibility, Such stress wus uid of ma abscuce of why mnotlve, such us giiity to conte Hag tuty. and ‘tho Goverhuent’s falluro to dame atone on u Bomew hut haruly-snagatiiod) te evil Wo exist in tho Inind of the notary Y Whom tho afldavit wis mado 14 ta Whethor eit . H tho mune Aulph of Mew. Ralph bunded bim Gen. Leake, in closl Bwopt uwny tho lognl fected tha statement | rowardly : wz tho Weukneas uf the notury's tstlmony, dubae BLODuETT Btocceded to deliver his charge to the Jury. ‘Tho qilentune was uburgod with suborutny bla wite onguuuilt perjury. ‘Tho very statomont of tha wi “hse, the Judge xoleinnly remarked, deser|berd bit Was portips as helnous mW ctlme ud Ue aunan heart could be guilty of. It was bad Wuigh for a person ta conunlt Horjury, but to Procure it to by committed by aiothor, and slgelutly: for a husbund to provure bis.wite to Cyl ler boul by ite commfssion, Was ud bigh au imme orally: considered, a8 could perhaps be agers Ktutementpf tho soveral alicgations cH WW Indietnunt, tuo Court. remarked that tho et in order to convict, mittst bo eativtiod of ng Muga: tet, that Mrs. Itetpl willfully end nae¥inaly, undor oath, hud stated what sho did UE believe to be traoy and sevonil, tut tho pricuitunt vrogured hee to dot ‘Zhe law of ftlbal and uccossury “did not apply ty this fiw Awas veubstantive olfeusa under tho wae itstood for u party to procure anothor omimlt tho crime of porary, and therefore chee way no necexuity to convict tho principal, one PERO who ‘committed: the orlme, in to punish properly and uae dangly to person wi progured tho Ce onde He comtnittod, That mute rn flood npon un independent footing, ‘Tho ju, Weston reyarding the defendant tf the tui idee Aint, pier talon Bt oo i eriui of willful perjury, was Whotber berocured herta doles? on DAtr wn oxbaustiva review of the tation: thoy th sides, tho Court statud to tha Jiny: th tet erg to deelda, in tho Uitte tho ovidouce, Teiereet Mrs, Kulp knowingly swore futsely 2 worth eg 19 her estate when she stated she wos bang {£2.48 In real catato, and whether hor huss aur brecured her tu do it. rom the teucimony gotton tality tho danger in which the bond wus PUNY, Mad the matter in whieh tutbh auted, uty Wore to decide whether he kuew, trst, tage WHS tn bls wife's ullldavity und, Bou fae’ eether ho Kuow sho wus sweuriug Way seg tt Was thon for thor tu say’ whothor 1b rar oval that he gould bave Hud the cous wither, Wulich ho’ did have with this allldavie cond thowluy its contents, ‘hoy ware abso ofa ‘baldur.tho Probability or the {mprobability hu eerled woomn, without iuiluunes tron her Inat cuts Kolug on bond lke thls. In werime fongoy Where it wag neeedgury tw Mberate be dog geen buh such wy thing might naturally ate, Without Inilucnce or suggestion, bub in Juuy" Tats trinsution stich us thly it was for tte fhe wicnuslder whether ake would have done dud WLRUE oone tndunee from her, Musbund, ‘ lier why would puke ay ulbduvit of this ulloyod quitely character and ho nut know Its contents, couclusion, the Court dellvored the urmual tne xtritetion is to whit constitutes a reasonable doubt, and said the form of the verdict would be atnipty “gullty” or “not guilty!” ‘Tho Jury retired about half-past 12 under tho gstsiet) of tho Jinilitf, and wore iovked up In their, att, At a quarter-past 4 tho ie camoin, but not todellvera verdict. What’ thoy wanted was more tnetructions, and 1 portion of tha testi inony,=that relating to tho iniluonce which the dofendaut oxercised ovor hia wife. On that polnt, too, they wanted furthor inatruetions, The Court told them that thoy must depend on tholr recollection of the oral featimony in the conwe, ant Upon the efroumstances fn the ene, In deform lalme xy to the Influences whiele the tee fendant exerolaed over his wife, Kor tho pure ee of refrostimg thelr recollection, however, be detaiiod some portions of th Inoity bene fiyeon the yneation nt Ine, but atl Uae the sree deterining the we ite we Tet Mpon mere sumplelon, put Upon tangible evites Alot would satiety them of the defendant | to deliver in xenled veri rent them bnele to his roan, adjourned the ene thon on tra puton hit hut and overcoat, and went to eatel his tral for Waukegan, JONES Vs. JONES. Judge Barnum has been engaged the pnst three days in hearing a rather singular case, Tose i, Jones vs, Heary taylor Jones, whieh was a bill for separate matitenance. Jt seems tho partles were married in Jinse, 1670, and, to order to combing tho useful and tho plens- aut in dua proportions, tuok a brie dat tour out to Kansas City, where Jones, who be dry-goods merehant, proposed to eatublish 1 store, and Hitiorat uty ke his fale ‘bride, While they were there, and presimubly aloe tis wl the Dilasof the honeymuon, Ure sus- ceptible Jones wag stuitten with ‘the chutrms of a tuatagh Ui and surrendered without ever AL strangely. rourht bis wife baek bere, and then, on the old threndiare exetad of & Dusi- ness," loft hor und went nek to Kansas City. In at few weeks his Dusiness alates bad progressed: go favorably Bhut he wus able to return to bis wife, when @e next day le received a postu enrd from the Kunsns City flame, sending © lots of love.” Strange to say, the Inwiul wife did Hot resent. Us, but meckly turned. It uvor to her, faitiioes spouse, | with the very mild reprouch that’ she did not think it quite proper for hin to ha reeelving such ints sives, Ile thought so tou, and in order to pre- vent the recurrence of such an aecident he found it necessary to yo to Kungas City, Here he wrote his wife u letter saying that he would not Jive with her again, and thon the next diy sent another apolorizing for the frat. ‘The next w she heard from hin was didireetly through: adry-goods house here, with which be was trad- Ii, ane, neting on the Information, sauntered Gown that aristocratic street, Michigan avente, and found the deltnquentcomfortibly enseonecd in handsome npurtivonts wih the Kuss City milliner, ‘Che prospect of a feminine teht was execodingly good, when Mra. Jones wisely cone eluded tat the game was not worth tho powder, and mady tho qtilekest time poxsi« blo to the oftice of her MautesaAke, J. Blackturn Jones, into whose sympathize and chivalrie oars she poured the story of her wrongs. A DIL for separate mulntominee was: accordingly drawn and , und yt way alter the hearlig it was devided, Phe defense wits that sho bud been guilty of cruelty, but the Juda lnthnated very broudly that bo! dtd not belluve the defendant's testimony on tat polnt, He was oqually skopticnl ay to Jones’ evidences ns to bis fionpelet atitus, and after reviewing the testineny, and payliyg a handsome compti+ meut to Mra Jones, her lndyiike denseanor on thy stand, tnd her testimony, he ret eveoin her favor, ondering "that her husband should pay hor 8200 for sulieltor’s fees ant! costs, bul San a yeur, payable in monthly installments Of 830. lered 2 de FRAUDULENT JUDGMENTS, ‘Tro bills wore Ned yesterday in the Superior Court by George Uny,—ono nzulust C.F. aA, Iurichs to set nside a Judsanont by confession for $1,017.50, the other aguinst J. at Young & Co, to set aside a Judginent for $148, The notes did not mature wntll February, but it isehurged thut after tholr execution. by Gay the powers of attorney wore altered Uy erasing the word “ mit- turlty," and substituting the word * date,” so ag to give the puyecs tho right tu cnter up judge ment nny time atter the date of the nate, in- steud of waiting antl itfelldue., A amotion was made two days ago before Judge Sinith to set aside these confessions on the sme grount, and a) large number of ailidayits wero read whieh hid been mada by exports In the use of the mloroxcope,, The dudge hold tht, us the evidence was contlicting, be would not decide it, but that tho party uggrieved must ile 1 bill to sot valde the Judgincnts, A motion for injuac- tion will be nsked for Monday, wid m the mete time the dofendunts have agree not to usk tho Sheriff to pay over tho monuys collcuted by Lin du tholr executions. * ITEMS, In tho cnso of ‘Terwilixor against the Great Western Insurnco Company, nu order was on- toved yesterday approving the accounts of tha Hecelver, Tt, 8, McClelland, and ordering thit ho bo dllscharr d-from-furthor duty unless ohjec- Hons are Mod In Ave days. A motion was mule for tho appointment of inother Necelver, but it wag continuad to tho “uth Inst, A nominatillyidend was declared yesterday In tho bauk rupt case of Charles W, Higdon, UNITED STATES COURTS. Robeson & Co. beran n suit yesterday against Josoph LB. Quinn, to rocovor $3,000. STATE COURTS, Joseph Leo began « suit in trespass against Christinn Holm to recover $5,000 dumnyes, Eva 8, Willetts brought suit for $5,000 agalnat, ‘Thomas J. Hitcheock. Simeon Strauss sued William LL Wownsond for LO. W. HE, Hastman sucd Churles I, Brower for Mary Kelly, ndiministratrix of tho ostate of Doan Kelty, docensed, commenced un action in trespass uyainst the Bultinore & Obie Kallrond Company, Inying damuses it 85,000, Kuward' €, Cooledye begin ivsuit against Ale bort L, Cor, udmtolstrator of tho estate of Sarah Munger, clatning $2,500 for ulleged broach of cayenaut. CRIMINAL COUR, ‘Tho recogntsauces of Jumes Mates and John Cabilll woro furfuited, Joseph Lutcher was found gulity beforo Judge Gary of assaulting Rdward Payne with intont to do bodily injury, and was fined 850 and costs, Witlam Finnigan was tried in tho branch Criminal Court on a charge of burglary, and convicted upon a very pretty ploce of clroum- stantial avidence. Juuv 24, 1879, tho redle deuce of Oswall Mayo, on Emerald avenue, iu tho Town of Luke, was found open in tho night thao by some offivers who, In muking an investigation, cine upon a couple of mon wha In tho dackness aad confusion munnged to’ mnke tholr escape, leaving botilnd thom a couple Of pairs of boots which thoy had removed before cntering tho house. ‘hese thoy coutseatod, and, after some little work, they found a shoemmkor who idantifiod tho boots as a puly whieh he hid unde for the priguner ubout a week before, ‘Thoy-ulso learned, that Flanngan had, an tho night of the nttempted robbery and shortly after Its occurrence, Visited ayouny min named ONG, = who tukes card of Sam Ale Jnrd’a race-horses, und slept with: tim: in tho stable, In the muraing Flanagan requested: O'Nulll to bome for hin and got hlin his boots, whieh bedid. Both tho shoomuker and the stuble-boy were in courtand fully estib- shod the facts abuve stated, und sa Cutly cons vinced tho Jury of tho prisoner's jallt tit thoy convicted hita and fixed his punlabiment at one yeurin the Penitenia : PROBALE COURT. Inthe ostate of Jano Kinnoy, the will was proven and admitted to probate, and letters tes- tumentary were fefued to William H. Kinney, ‘Tho eatate fa valuod at about 82,200, Tn tho estate of Willis I, Dtshop, minor, Iot- tera of guardianship of tho ostata wore fasied to Bharck | ue Poultuey, and hey bond for 80,000 was a tha ostuto of Frank G, Stannard. ct ale minora, letters of guardianship of tho cstute wera tasued to Holen J, Stuupard, and ber bond for $100 was approved. In thu estute of Livala Russell, minor, Juttera of guardianship of the estate wero issued to. Chas tae Serdar wud bis bond “for 83,0u0 wud approved, Tn the catato of Charlos Abel, minor, lottory of fyndianehtp uf tho catato wore fsiued tu Churles elena, wud bis bond for B00 wus up- proved, : é —_ THE CALI. Jupax Drowmoxp—[n chambers. Jupgr Neopasrt—Cull of crlintinal calendar. ‘The ‘Tuttle cage on hearing. APPELLATE CounT—wu, 87, 88 60 and 00, No exbe on hear. Jupox Suitn—No preliminary cail. Trial call, ‘BAW, 3402, FAVA, BAW, 8,608, No, ¥,480, Pulsifer yo COTO ANTHONY 163, 160, 101, 16% Jo, 173 NTWONY—I 7 170, 176) 470, 182, No, P21, Oldorubiw vs Knowles, Juoae WILLIAMsON—Assists Judge Authony, No. 4,107, Horg ¥, Stose, on trial. Die JASEIO: wy, UL, a No. 2, Bloora JUVE GAKONEN—7, 25, 20,27. No. 2, Role wuld v, Cammorcial Hotel Compuny, ol bears Dy Upay ToaEs—No call. 5 Western India Rallroud Conipuy’ veBeCor mick, still an celal. Jubak MuLAN—w to Hi {lnclusive, No, 41034, Wisner y. 7 OU tril, acpae ULE Y=-12, 43, 24, 23, and 26, No caso on at. Junge launua—13. No cage on hearing. CRIMINAL Count—Nos. 44, oh 111, 1d, 100, 104, 195, 107, $00, 200, 205, 208, and 4:3, ouNTY Cour lyqano cages froin 9 a.m. to IL at. Bet cuse torin” No. 1.250; munt, No. tt, Luke View; Derm i N=, vs. Powell, on boaring. speclul ussesae fod. 1281, 1280, Ta | 1,288, 1.018, 1,118, 1612 WRIBUNSS: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 6, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. 9 1), L161, 1.160, L170, 1,178, 20, Noeuse on trial. TUDUMEN'TS. Surrntion CounT—Coxrrattons—Jacob Week- ert v. Clomons Kutne, $2,400.77, Jovax Axtiony—tichard full v. Chicago & Enatern Ulinota [nallront Company, verdict #1,1%0, and motion for new trial. Jupoe Winntasson—Edwin Dymond et al v. Wiltlam 8, Edlbrook, verdict $310.0, snd motion for now trial, Cireuiy Count—Junoe Mowtax—douth Park Comniastoncra ve Hong and othe sheenenite tion verd{et ayninst pluintiits for ———— LE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, They Are Choristers. To the Hdltor of The Chicage Tribune, Crtcano, Dee, 15.—The three loys alluded to fh your notlee of the Heethoven Concert ns sings ing the “Angel Trio” In “Elan” are not “ Madrival Hoys,” but are junior charlaters frou tho ebulr of tho Cathedrat of BS, Peter and Pau TBE, 1,188, 3,200, Had De. 3. Se Jowellin Bocturce To the Eitor of ‘The Chieagu Tritun CHtcago, Dee. 4.—Your last Sunday's paper gives thy following quotation aan loading prope osition of Dr. Jewel's nddvess before the Philos sophient Suclety of Inst week. You say, Ho then expresked n decided botlef that nervous nnd mental disense: relatively, us well as netiuly, Jierensed ag one of tha necessary cons stottences of an advanced elvillzauion.” Is this assertion truo?. If trig, it seems a pow= ertul argument agaist in ndvanced civil If diseuse, a4 tha Doetor a consequence of an adval Ht an ndyaneed civilization must be wrong, by tending to mike nian’s condition worse ins! of better, I do not belleve tn such tence ‘That thoru ure grent errors fn our present ef ization, and that we do very many this that are (In violitlon of the Inws of hualth, Ties wille ing to udinit, but these are not necessary conse= quences of un ndvaneed civilizations eee guile somo of the frults of our present civilian fon, J.do not wish to be eritieat, but Jeould not help regretting that in the Doctor's citation of euues nerensing nervous and mental weakness, he omitted toinention what doubtless is tho most prolitic cause of these conditions—unnely: tuo teh And too powertal mediention. Oftan be bes nre burn they are the subjects of ndicions mediation ndartar birth nH NAN exses to Boutin BirIps many of whieh are very pernicious 6 on buth nerves mud mtn, J. Arwaren, M.D, Saknegan Like. To the Euitor of The Chtengo Tribune. > Minenat Point, Wis. Dee. tn fine Laine pf tho filth inst. is communication slaned "tn whieh it ls stated that Dr, Jobu A, ite, u: op, belleves the inko now knowa ng the Pewaukee Lake to bo tha lake etlled “Salucgan” in tho trenty with somo of tho Sac and Fox Indians mado by Gen. W. 1, Harrison at St. Louis, Nov. 2, 1804; and your correspondent asks for infor- nition.on tho subject, to ald bn the correct pub Hention of in historical atlas of Indhun alfotrs by the Silthsontin instlt The werthern bound allod* Sakwewun With this dencrip: Kiver enters into ‘The only Jake that compl ton ty the Stukwan and rung out of" lew Mukwitnnaya Lake, No river orstreun enters the Pewaukco Like, but iwsmall one [8 diseharze ty cht after running ubout tour tolles empties lute the Fox River, which bas ite suuree about twolve miles north of these in the northwest corner of the ‘Town of Menomonee, and in its courze to Join the l.tnols, after pasing throvel the Villge of Waukesha and receiving numer: ous tributaries, becomes a comparatively largo river, and enters Mulavaago Luke, whieh it again “leaves.” J make the following extract from the mann foript sheets of a history of Wiseonsin, in the preparation of wile (am now enured. “ho amnll hele called Saknegan Is supposed to ulewinngo Lake, a Httle northeast of tho Viliuge of Atukwanngo, of which tho Ton, Androw E. Blinere was one of the lonnders, quid which gnvoe to him the tide of 'Siue “of Mukwanugo.” The dircet Une from the Wiscon- ain Iver to tho Fox Rh forming tho northern boundary of this cession, passes about three infles south of Madison, trough the recond lake (Waubona), and crosses Rock flyer nbout two miles above Fort Atkinson. MB Tenants and Sewer-Gas, Tu the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cicaco, Dov, .—In your editorial columns .Of Tuesday you minke some excollent sgger> tions relutive to the legul and moral rights of tenunte who may bo poisoned by noxious uses ‘from defeutlyo seworngo in houses they oveupy. It is to bo bopail that some of tho thousand suf-" ferors from sower-gns will commence auitagaingt owners of Unhealthy tenements. Let ua have a doelsion which will sut nt rest the question, now of such vitul importance, whether 2 curcless or soulless proprictor cin allow wholg fauilties to be polxoned beenuse ho is too ponurlous to keep his premises In a good sunitary condition, But there are some objections to this method of pro ecdure, First, the owner of tho building muy, be pertvetly Innocont of any design of decotye* ing bly tonnut ts to tho sanitary condition of his house, Mo may hive ue to plumbing and soworago in good condition when rented to the tonnnt, or tho tenant may by his own cnreles- hows enuso obstruction to tho soworage, or the defeot may be purely un aceldent for whioh 10 one {8 tu blune. Ii such cures 4 Bult brought against tho’ andlor’ would bo minute fostly unjust and injurious. ‘Thu law, as 1 undoratund It, tint any injury + to any portion of the property muat be borne by the tenunt, if hoe received the premises In good condition. Second, tha tenant mus not. be able to bear tho exper Of suit unitnst the Innd- ford, and tho bringing of such sult may work to his injury, J have often advised my patients sulteriny from diseases oyiloutly ease or ape gravated by imperfect sowertge in houses evl- dently {an bad sanitary condition when ue ten Ant tonk possession to refuse to pay the rents tl the sowerngo was inadesafs, Tbis course: generally brings the landlord to terms. It appears to mu that tho bust way out of this trouble fs for the eity to appoint eompetont men to inspect the private sewerige of ench now house, and mao Inepect cuch houxe bout to bo ronted,—hnve it untdo obligatory on every Inud- lord to deliver to tho lessee of nuy property a eertMente Lrom the Saaitiry Inspector that tho house so rented iy nay geod garutnry condition, If sueh a incasure is adopted there would be no more trouble for landtords who complied with tho law, for, dur fgos, uny de he removed ne tho wront ditoulty in convincing people wha awn tho house thoy live In that the sawerago js bud, ‘They profer to tay the blune 4 escaping pros from gaa pipes, dead rats, ote, "Tharoe should bo a law compoll he such people to place their premiaes {a good condition, if tho Inspevtor doe eldo It tu bu necessary, Epwis M. Wau, M.D, ‘Tho Jows To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Crucage, Doc, 1—The yenoraus xentiments you havo from Une to tine oxpresaud tn behulf of the Jows, aud your caustia treatment of the crusade agutnat thom, prompt mv to say n few words that may alt the cause of falr play, of whivh you ure go ready and so worthy un ox- ponent. A Jew inyaolf, but flrat and nbovo all things an Atneriean, Ehuye been often surprised: at tho mexgro Knowlodyo Ut oxlsta among falrly Ine tolllgont people ag to tho causes that have mado our race what tt fs charged with bulng—numolys A race of cuuning, unsorupulous shopkeepers, ‘tho sympathy extended and the abhorrence ox- presaod Jatimes of porseeution are approclated by tho Jow, but he feols that u greater gervico would bo rendered ff tho press and tho pulpit would oxplylu the onuscs Uhat hive madu the Jow whut ho Is, $. How inuny wre nawure tint Jowish-omanct tlon only untodates ro-uinuncipition sixty any ure aware that aur cons dition wae ng abused ad the neyro’s, uid wore ulin nore yulling because wor had fallow ron «high estate? | Webud history's from our tol pa sprung a Mosed, & David, o hi aceubeu, 8 Chrial How can tho cruelty of our tiskimastors bo better deseribod than “by admitting all that is sala aginst us, and then polut to the Prophet of Zion aud tho, Martyr of Culyary, and suy wi thy fons Jows,"—such wero thy types wo once. praktacud Peoimire us ng Wo wero, and ad wo are, and you buye tha plgnt of our fall and tho mousure of our degradation, We have been outeusts, tramps, for 1800 yoars, da it yenerally known what the condition of the Jow was bofore the revolution of "hi? Fuintly outlined it was this: Ho was com elled to wear a garb which diathgulsh rom the ryst of mankind; bo was Jive nw quapter wsaigned to J i ho qnutd nopawn real evtute; he could not wlopt u profession; be could not leura wu tmide. Ouly one tiling wus portultted,—ho might barter, Hs wits wore tis stook in trade; only onu puth was joft open for bin, aud ho woro it deup with thrift and cunning, Allthis bolug truco, fa ita wonder the Jow jan shopkeoper; that be 4s cunning and often une serupuluus? Tho traditions of sluyery and vices oF oppression ure nob cust olf in a day. Who masta Ea, so? Is it unfalr to anawor Tho brdstinn . Whut tho‘Jew bug wocoraplisted, sinco his emancipation bas been tutter! aly expressed in your editorial of tho Leth just, tknow that the qotoration to which LT pings ig oarnestly cue leavoring to overcome the Tuults produced by conturics of oppression, Av a rule there is vor Uttle race wy ainone Wa, and this fs only nrousud when uny of our beoply ure persecuted, fur We younger und niore fortunate of our rice, when Coinpartny tha CAPONE ER und privi= Jugeg we enjoy in our Dievsed Union, fecl tho more keoaly tho wrougs our parcats endured. 1 may add the Jow abhora oppression, no matter who the oppressor or oppressed may be, a favor to ask of y fr Editor: tt 19 ft RUgReSt through your colimes te ech eminent. inen na Prof. Swing and fy, Thomas and nthers that thoy givin ia lecture an the “he Thoy can tell how sliver a leprae the noblest; ow much more reasonably it ts to And fault with the dryrraders of men than with the degraded, nnd how much more Linnano it $4 to heal the wounds of conturies than te eontinue irritate them, AN AMBIUCAN JEW. ————ea FISH-CULTURE, mital Mectlug of the Central Sovtety. The reeond anual meeting of the Central Fisheulturat Soctety was field at the Grand fae cite yesterday afternoon, This organization, projected a year ago by Mr, HB. Stuy, of bow, and Mr, Fred Mather, of Now York, hug for ita object the interchange of Views on the general sublcet of tah, tholr propagation nnd protection, it# membership of thirty embracing quite 0 nitmber of relentists, Tho nttendance yesterday wad sual, as It wasthe first day. More, however, are expeeted this morning, The following were present: Commissioners Miller of Michigan, Shaw of Jown, Falrbank and Nartlett of Minols; Prof. A. 8. Forbes, of Nortal, My Prod Mather, of the United States Fish Commission; Frank N. Clarke, of North See ville, Mich; snd Maj. d. M.Cruminy, of Luke City, Colo, fish culturcrs; Superintendent Welsher, of Wisconsin, ‘Tho wnevting was cutted to order by VRESEDENT FALIDASK, who expressed regret at the einall, attendance, but sald those there were varnest mon who tut fish-culture at heurt, since xeme of thorn Lud vune 1,00 iniles, After the transaction of some routing bitsi- Tuna, H. Ballou, of Byanstot, f 1 Ealnata Urigus, of iiinols, we ners. An etcetion for offivers resulted ngs follows: President, Nok, Fulrbunts View Presents, 1, 3, Bhiw, 8. Jt. Millor, anid Prof. Forbes: Corres sponding eerctury,’ Fred. Mathor: iecording Seeretary, Frank N, Churk; ‘Preasurer, A. Booth, President Fairbank ead that at the Inst sus sion the subject of National protevtion of gist in tho Iiland lakes, the Missisxippl, and other rive ers was relcrred to the Executive Committee, with tnstructions to confer with Vror Liird. The matter bad been turned over to hia by the Committee, and he had tal with tive mem= bers of the Mouse Zenutor Davis. They said they ditn't think € would tike any ac- ton, ng its Jurisite the legislation be: the States bartering: wtcat deal was involved insho Bubject— BIATE*HIGIIES AMONG ULUER THINGS — nna if it were brought up now there would bo Inuch discussion, Mr. Fairbank coinelded with: this view, umd read the foltowing extract: from pad report of the Jown Fish Commission; So frag tho interior ponds aod waters nrv: concerned, containing loeat “species, ta States: mitist without doubt hive entire wantrots but tn (reat strean of water Hke tho Mississippi, nud Ju the great Inkes flowing through a dozen States: and containing twiyratory ftsies, passing tie entire length ot the “shuce of oF them, Staw laws are neces inailes quate, ag experience proves that tittle of equity or reelprocity will be considered fit Lepls- Inting with rewird to tho lishing Jaterest. The upper Suites nay appropriate und expend inoney for tho propagition of shes which tho lower States huve It ii thelr power to prevent ninost entirely from navending boyond tholr boundaries, ‘The desire for General G ment legistatso Con NB zenennlly ex pr that it would be well if the Sue Legisiatures: would call tho uttention of Congress to the int er. ‘The whole quesnon is in ma undeeldad, lite Mo understood condition, and demands iavesti- satan and tuquiry on ‘the part of all inter- uate Mr, Shaw usked If the Government didn't pro- (eet oyster-beds on the Athurtic coust: Mr. Mather bolluved not. Mr. Falrbante had uo doubt that exigencies wouk! soon arise for the, brunet of now fish, nnd Unt the question woula come before Congress in euch a way 28 to demand netlon, Miaratory tet put Into streams tribuiery to tho: Mississippi went to the Gull, and it was quese ton when these tsb beewme numerous whether Nshermen on the Misslsalppl should hye the riht lo nel then to an extent that would stop thelr running back, Tho attention of the Gen- eral Government sboull be called to the matter through tho Stata Leylatutures, At the request of Mr, Butiou, who suid be had prepared a paper on tho Jurisdictions! question, the subject was dropped until to-day. MISCELLANEOUS NUSINKSS, in motion of Mr, Miller, the Scerctary was di- ted to make an upproprinte minute on the records regarding the death of dumes We. Mile ner, of the United States Fish Comtnission. ‘Tho Sceretary read lettdrs of regret from Com- milssloner Sixty, of Colorado; Col. L.A. Harris, of Cinulnnady Cominissioncr Long, of Kansas; Commissioner Joseph F Barfoot, of tab; Jobn Redpath, of Michigan; wWeo thy following, wiilch ho guid was very Loportayts: MAvinos, Wit, Nov. 18-Ur, NK Fulibundi—. Dean sins There is no longer any doubt in re- gard to tho impregnation of the Catifarnia salmon cygs that hive beon revved in 1 water. 1 have fanpreynuted nw few lane whieh now show the cmbryy fish platy to the naked oye, Respeettully, 1 W. Wensren, Mr, Clurk said tint was tho only inetance ho had ever heard of, ‘Mr. Miller. safd he had hatched a few eggs taken fron Heh rufsed 1 Michigan ponds, Mr. Fairbank remarked that he hud demon strated at Gonovn Lake that Callfornia salmon Hd be riised in fresh water, no Sovlety then udjourned until half-pase o o'clock tls morning, when several interesting papers will be red, Allnrelnvited tu be present. a GEN. VIAZEN. A Former Army @filcer Says a Good Word for “Now Probabilities, To the Editar af The Chleagu Tribune. Ciuicaco, Dee. 1.—1 notles in Vax Trinun: of thig morning a letter from Washington signed HL 1 1t," making such an infamous attack on ono of tho Mnest oficers of the urmy, aid ne the sitno Une a must honorable and high-minded xentloman, that I cannot ict it pass without ny reply, ‘Vo those who are nequainted with Gen. Hazen tho subject of tho uttack, a reply will be unnee- ossury, but to those who are not, J subinit the following statement of fact; On duty with his regiuent in ‘Toxas in 189, he was sovercly wounded in an cngegement with tho Indians, n bullet pussiag through his bridio- hud und lodging in bis body, where It pow re- inaing, ond ut thaes causes him great sutforiing, and at all times tneunvenionce, Ta 18) he was appaluted Colonel of tho Forty-tirst Ohio Val- untoery, and in January, lev, was ugsigned to tho commun ofa brigade in Nelson's division of the Aruty of the Unio. At the butde of Shilo his beiymdo began Aghtlng Just after duyiiyht on Monday morn Ing, and fought gullantty up to o'clock, when the cnemy fn thelr trout fell buck. At this thie both Guus. Buell and Nelson rede up and thanked Gen, Hazen for tho gullunt bebvior of bis cou: anand. Hult an hour after thls the ittack on Mis front was renowed with great vigor, and Gon. Buell, seolug the enomy adyunchig to charge, ordered Gon, Hazon 0 eal up hls re 1d nkO BW eoUnter-elurgY, Wwolel wi and tho Conferlorates driven back a fon neo, say balf or threv-dourths of uo when ‘thelr second fine was renoliod, mot with oa nurduruus dre, i Drigade, ntready broken by houvy toss antl churglug so longa distance throuxd the woods and Hulls, Was compatied to full buck to ita origiial position. “In. making tbls chur the ated had borne tothe right, wo that i fulling buck thosy who went dna stralght fing gunie out in front of McCook's division; anid this is preelsety what Gen. Hazen did, thore res porting to a genural otlcer that his briguue was gut to plewus, which [t reatly was, not gure thin dU percent of It reneluny the position beld pros viowla to tha churge, wud asking tole yviven # new command, During this churge Gon, Uncen was upon the Iino with bis tnen, enconrapiny aud unycliy them on, aud when complied to tall buek try tus to collect them in suiticlent mime herd to Innke B successful stand, Tho elect of this churze was such that tha enemy imady ne further attack on thle pure of the tine, Thees ure tho fucté ws wiven in tho testimony: of the three olllcers of bid person siatt-awho wore permitted to teatlty at the courtenartisl convencd Lo try Col, Btanloy for, his falsasatud slunderous vhurges nguinst Ww onoble mun aad soldier, Many thers of his guinmand were unxious to testify to tho auine faults, but were nut permitted to do bo, Col. Stuey's counsel rising in court and objedting to tho admission of + thotr testimony, suy lng that Col, Stanley did “not cludin that tho charges he had made ‘were true, Dut almply that when he mudy thou bo beliceed thom to by trae,” and the Court, tkiag the ground that Col, Stanley was on trind for conduct unbecoming an oilicer nod 8 gentivmgn, Bnd not Gon, Hazen, sustained ‘the objection, puerllo thongh it was, and rejectod ture thor testimony, of tho sumy nature as the above, When tho rumor first begun diying about that Col, Stanley hud made dita glug charges against Jazen, Lagked wo army oll Gor what tho trouble was, ind ho replied: © Oly Ulazen and stanley bave bud sumo trouble, and every tho Stanley yets drunk he goea for Mazon” And £ would furthor say that at the Une Col. Stanley madu the charges" to hig face,” roferrod to by your eorrespondent, he «Col, 3.) way In such d condition ua to preclude tho posal- Dillty of a. goutleman rescuting tha Insult, and that nt that tlie Gen, Hazen wis compelled by bis oid wound to use to cuned ta walking, Tartaly: thls champlon of cou Me and nun! ness, Col, Binnloy,wua a brave aad noble nnn (hy tho only thing to tls credit being that the next day, when suber, he retracted und apolu- alee for his language. Gon. Hazen ld Que of the most honurable mun {it bus been my gout fortune to know; with puch ubutred of wrong that when be dees It any pluce, uo inuttor Low bixh, he "ues tor It” asa terri cd for wrat, uud iu this way be bid dnule encimiva in high places, and it bs these giles who sre sbouting BO loudly aygiul: is ward, su well enrned, of a position tot dg weil thtted by yours of study ugd observudou, bu e and his releaso from duty for which his wound renders hina tntit. As furans his nsalgnment to favored poste ls concerned, 1 would alinply say that hia regiment hasbeen stationed for years ut Fort lnford, Dakota ‘Territory, which ta not a purser une vinble post, and not at all ike that of Geu, Hon- cork on ( or's Istand. Thave eld nothing in regard to Gen. Hazen's forvices after the battle of Shiloh, for the rewon that they ure mutters of history, and are too well known to your reniord to eed any Colne ment. Gen, Paltner, of your Btate, benrs testi« Ineny tothe galtantry and valuable rervi 4 0 Gen, Hicen's brigade at Stone River, In saving the army from detent, and his services at Fort Mealliater and other ‘phices: need no apport From ine. Hie observations of tho Frineo-Prus. nian and HtusweTarkist wns hay 1 tlons fave met wit! quarters, as iuterfee! tts add aye, Chott tothe good of the ‘The f stated al He apposition ineertain with time-honored hith+ mude with n single eyo hove nre of my own knowl. edge, and In the matter of the battle of Shiloh £ would qiy that up te the time we were, Ky. half way back from our charge, 1 wis within aw few feet of Gen. Muze id knew of whine f write, When L tost slirht dlin then it was a Iittle late for amin to begin running wway,—the time to do that would bave FAW hour before, Ju regard tothe heater the charwe, f would stinply say Unit the regiment which tind been tit reserve all the morning and was only engaged durlig the churue, lost 10 ont of Sil men, or About sO per cent, with only two inen reported inissiny. the remalalng Es velog either kiited or wounded, Twill not trespass on your space to reply ture ther ta “HL. LR at ‘this Une, though’ foam ready) atany thing to brand the whole of bis charges as inisreprosentations and false No. 27s th Wal mea Ceo, EX-SEXATOR WARDAS, Ho Writes u Graphic Sitctch of the Kurly Dayn of epubleantianty Mount PL. ANT, In, Dee. 1, 188.—To the Raditur of the Keokuk Gate Cly—Duan sie Vhave {his inoment read your beautiful editorial ree ferring to the Eeputdieun forlorn hope in tho United States Senute of 50, In whieh you most kindly enuple my name with tha Senatorial de+ bates for free territory. Without wautming that Tmerited your gencrons allusions to tho purt T took in Cutt great initiators controversy, I would be untrue tomy own feelings did 1 not tender iny thanks for your flattering cornmenda- Mun, As Tread your well-turned periods, the whole Meture rises before me, There sut Fersenten und Lhualla, Hie and Belt, Collamer and Poote, Sumner and Wilson, Foster, Seward, and Fish, from the Bust, and Wade, Trumbull, Durkee, and myself from tho West,—itfteen of us, ait toll. On the issucs of freedom all the other Senators wero solld ayninst tts. We had a bate: from the tirat ‘organization for the session, We had to tlt torn decent recoguition on the standing committees, ‘This was lithe winter of 1855-'8. Of course, fs yor say, yout tere a incre id thon, | wie the olleout of this bund of pioneers, When still suiaticr inmonbers they bad been exetuded from the comuitttees, on the alleged wrnund that did not belong to any healthy orzanizate tio nee the wrrival of reernit was halled with delfght by every anti-stavery Scna> tor... It was like the appearance of ia fresh brigade In the hent of a great buttle, This bund of stalwarts, votwithstanding the “unhenlthy churacter of the polltleal organiza don,” ha now prown to be more than one-fifth of tho Senate, which, under its standing rules, enabled them ta demand the yens and nays, und thus compel Uwir lmperious opponents to yo on tho record In the decision of every hnportant question, And, ns these rules contained no pro. visions for neatlot “the previeus question,” we could compel exhaustive debate, And they eoon beeane painfully aware that every ques tlon ruised bearing onthe xreat issues of freo- dom would be debated at length, So tines they would sit protoundly du as if to” perinit our side tue: itself with unanswered tatk. Then some of then would become hawnes to thelr feet aud scold, and threaten to chinge tho rulus so a8 to Nuilt debates but were deprived of a decent pre« text for such uction by our side insisting only for suticient time for debate commensurate with tho magnitude of the pending questions, and by boing niways ready to proceed with the iiscussion, Sometinies thoy woutd attempt to "sit out” a question, ne it wad called: that is, refuse to adjourn for niends or sleep and sit day and night, ttl tho thinl vote could be taken, Tat ntests of physieal endurance we y iv torlous, for tha reason that our fteon Serntors were always gover: and ble to rempin ut thelr dosks, ly to procoud with the transaction of business; which, T regret to add, was tot true of all onropponents, all day and through tho night, until ori the noxt morning, 8 large percent on that slic usimilly boenmne vory eleepy, would bluster, seald, and threnten for a thine, ahd then adjourn. ‘Thus the battle of freedom was fought In the Senate for two year, cmmbenciny the latter part. of Mr, Plereo's Adintoistration, With tho nd- vent of Mr. Buchunan s Presklent came to tho Senate mugnificent Repnbilean reccuits—Clark, Dixon, Slumons, King, Cameron, Hrodorick, and Chandler (Chirk aad King in pince of Fish: and Hell, increasing our band to twenty. And ‘Uvo yours lutercamoe ive moro stalwarts—An- thony, Ten Eyck, Grimes, Doolitue, und Bing: hant (in tho mountine we bad lost the brave and Tenrless Broderick), jnereasing our number to twenty-fourout ota full Sonate of sixty-four The ofect of these Republican recruits was simply stiporb, On the udnds of the old fifteen it was like tho ralnbow painted by the sunlight on the bosom of the passing storm. They ecened. us harbingers of a victorious battle of idens, fought and won by tho masses.of tho peopluat their quiet homes, Near tho close of Mr, Buchanan’s Adininiatra- von—one “year luter-came secession and the withdruwal of Southern Senators, giving tho mumerieat majority to. the Republicans, whteh wus teniporurily Jost only two yeuts sinee—to be reguined on tha 4th of March nuxt, or two years tater. Shut tho Sonate during the War und the perlod of reeonstruction—the most difleult. ena of [ts higtery—cnn Inirdly be referred to yet in tho light of reminiseence, Of the ploneer bund of fifteen, only ono—THan + nbn Hunlin, of Malne—ts now a member, And he has not had continuous Senatorial service, } iden, Hale, Boll, Foote, Collamer, Sumuer, Wilson, Seward, Wade, and “Durkeo dre dead, Of tho recruits precedlug tho War, composed of men in no sense less cininvat as atitesmen, nor Jess potentint in counsul, many buve jolnod their seulora in the aplrit, world. Simmons, Hixon, King, Veukyek, Chandler, Hlugham, Grimes, and Durkes hro silent at carth’s | roil- cull; Authony remuina iu the Sonate, aud two others of thia class only are living. * Pho serian 1 has boon equally tmporl- ota with tho Sunntors whom T test saw slitting on the opposit side of tho old Senate Chamber, many of Whom Hever found more tun equaly in the trons or for Je vtrife. Tho elder Dodge, ‘Youcoy, Allen, ‘Thompson -of New: Jenioys tho older “Bayard, Clayton, Plerve, Mason, Evang, Hutler, Lveron, Weller, Fitzputrick, Sildell, ‘Thompson — at Kontuc Crittenden, Mell, Mright, Douglas, Gayer pastlin, Css, Rusk and Houston are nll dead, as ure Hamimond Powell, Andrew Johnaun, Nicholson, Green, Volk, ‘aud others who” entored —iuter, but preceding the Wir of tho ~ bellion, And na ono of the Senators of* this period, thouzh sty living, who defended or upulugized for seceaslon, ever retntored ne it member, ‘There ne, howover, thirty uew Seu tors from the #ixicon Southern Stites pertints clously dofouding tho principles or the * Lost Cause," Marvelous manifestations of obtuie- ness! Souchorn statesnien of the antesbollum period defended State-soverciyaty and the vone Bequent right of secession tu preserve slavery. As slavery was, th thoir opinion, the punimMount futerest, they acted wisely. Jn tho presence uf the aroused moral sentiment of tho people uf the North, shtvery’ could: by perpotunted fn no other wnuthod. Mut now, when skivery [8 irvo- vocnbly dens, it 1s wondortul that le ghost: should exercise such a potent spell on the nilnds: of thelr duceessors, Had they the mental foros cust of their predecesson, thoy vould barity fall to porceyve Chat this ghastly fantom must he swept awny by the splrit of treedom, as the sinoke hovering over the Hold of a deivered Dattle, by the Iricudly breezes; and thut Tour- bon statesmen must ive phat to tho represunte utives of equal rights botore the hu as surely na Uno 1s Iexorable and truth eterna, Tardon this fiprompta cominiscenco, funeral oration, and prophecy, | Your beautiful editeriat engendored tho linpuleo, With great respect, yours truly, JAMES HARLAN, —{— Gould and Vandorblit’ Profits, Huston Conmerclal Hulletin, As to tho profits of men like Sage, Gould, and Vanderbilt grout stories ure tol CA pe proxtaately elplier thom out Thus, aan ig Thal Sugy bus 30,000,0W of caplial actively one yoyod, wo tay calculate Ut he is wre to nuke it pay’ tite 83,000,000 per iin, By gulls Luu abures « yene fn tho elapo of privileges; thls udds $1,000,000 iuure to bla Treome; then he may bu sately reckoned is rakiag $1,0M,U0 inure 1 bis buyfug and rolling of stocks, ‘Totul, §4,000,- 0, oF 20 per cent on tis capital, Gould's proits gre burdor to truce, but we uty Rucae §5,000,L00 oa bly pruitts an this year's operations, Vanderbilt thoy estimate to bo worth $100,000, 000; Interest on hia Investincnts, say uu BYaRAZe of 6 per cont for a third of his property in Untied States bonds; thon ndd tho moicst sun of 8100,- dud. on Lis turns in stocks, and we wet mh sun of $10,000,000 on his, yeurly income, und yet be is Hot satisied, We put “Jay Gould's profits ata higher percentage thin Vanderbilt on tae money cuiployed, Lecauve in tho Lurmur cuss It isurals and nioney, in thy latter monuy with less brains. Sngu swells tly pile by druwing on Gould's Drain-bank, while Gowld ewella bls by cast ace commodations from Sage's pile of cast, Standing boblod the ruiling uf the New York Block Exchaonyesroon it thu afternoon of any day Inet week, and Monday and ‘Tucaluy of thle wouk, ono could have sten a sinatl crowd of nen onguged in buying and seiling, not slouks, but money, ‘The majoriy were borrowers, und were willing to pay, io tholr pinehing oveds, us high ig S90 Bh JOU AUT Interost por centais or in othor words 6 pur centand a daily comission of 2G. The smith manceity, wore agents of the rf money this cusu wo inlgh' yat tho mone: tors. They were manipu- hate h money. “‘Phey wanted to 1 free aldersy—to benunls tole ens so that thuy would drop thule curtitieates, {his ley metaphor might be chunged Jnto u tery ouw when wo say that some. of these man{pulators burned thoir Nnyvera. Thos sueceedet in muik- {ng a auud inuny stuckholders of ginalt margins drop their vertificntes; but they were not so anecesaful with tho strong holdera. On the cons trary, by Induging a shart interest thoy. fire nisher n basis for the Vanderbilt parps to storm thelr enemies’ works, which thoy did fn fine stylo on Wednesday of this week. THE “SOLID SOUTIL” A Now Sonthorn Neowapaper—What Memphis us to Anawer For. Tho Nrat muinber of n paper called the Sottt Aouth, published at Memphis, bas mare its np> penrance. After quoting as ita platform: the resolutions of 1708, [ta edftors, Messrs. Kernan & Butuck, deliver thelr sulttatory as follows: “The Demoeratio masses in both tha Confed- erate und Federal sections of these virtually (is-United) Btates oro sick, eles, sick of the payld, peecant, and pusillunimous marches, coun marches, nnd Rurrendera that bave eharneterized the pestitent policy of tho cows ardiy aed crawl about conservatives in our party household since the surrender, The shams, snenkbys, und snukes-in-tho-grass who have only too frequently exercised a controling: inttuence in mukiag our party platforme, noml+ mating our party Ucketa, and mannging our purty campaigns. sines tho dastardly new de« yarture of 1571, bave deserted the Last fivlus, breathing, turobblng principles of Demou- rivy and onre inoving heaven, earth, - and tho other plus too make the worl believe they are better Hndlenls thin the Kadler themselves. Yost Nouwlthstanding thoy defended the richt of secession.—defendud (Hin the South at the mouth of thy cunts, de embed iit the North by’ holding peuce mer fuss and culling fir the recognition of the Young ltopublie of 1at,—they are wink hing kind= Jy und cordiaily at centralization to-day by dee Hylug the ratte secession. ant by swearing, and #lobbering that the jon fs Indissotuble, Notwithstuading they repudiated the recon struetion measures tn totond resolved in Presi denthul Convention assembled that the measures $y question were ‘revolutiomiry, uli, and youd," they ure diaterting history and Unrewing dust aves to-dhty In onice tome it appear tut tho: necepted the ladlent *results of the War” think that they cad this befood and bejuggle he locdy-shirters of Hine Bellydam inte the fond Deller thut we nre a reconstructed people, the fnet is tat we are nat re th et 18 that wo hates Union that is cemented tr-Spanglod rag that réminds us of the eriies of our conquerors: when tho Tact {s that we xpit_ upon Federal le Istution that seeks tot rogutives of our sover “in presenting the South ty the publle we want ft understood that we wash white our hands of the doings and mis> doings of tho conservative trleksters, budentors, and title riggers hour party rinks. ‘Thos may crawl on thoir bellies and lick the bare fect of ‘thelr Yankee masters, but we will defy tho devil dogs of Puritan power, and tell then to their teeth that thoy ean never rin thelr black, besotted, und teustly heresies dawn our thronts or down, tho throats of the Democratic misses, Wo want it to be furthor understood that princl- ple fe our only polley; that we will spenk through Those columns as Our unbought and wunbuyable telow partisans think, ond feel, and wo Will tage our orders front nu iin or set of men; Unt we will not be coaxed und varneyed inte silence on the one haud, nor bullyrooked und binckyuardéd Inte sttomisaion on thie other; that we sill speak our sentiinents in words us hot and bard as musket-balls on the wings thit wo will champion Stite-soverolenty, Ineludtag the tnefdents of secession and null flention; that we favor the repeal of abl tho Leg= telition that the Hades! party hus spewed upon the statute-books; tit we, Will advoente tree: trades that we will oppose National banks, ship bounties, railroad subsidies, and everything tite has tho stnck and thivor of a moneyed monopos ly. In brief, we propose to publish a paper that whit commend self to the Democratic misses by Ite Holey to the doctrines and traditions of the purty: Its burnlig seorn and comempt for subterfuge, temporlzing, and evaslony tts uate peachable honesty of purpose, and tte defiant devotton to the prerogatives anu prinetples thst thundered from the guns, peuled from trumpers, aud hung ken glory over the battle- banner of tho Confederate enuse. a A DEFENSE OF IRISH LANDLORDISM. ‘To the Editor of The Chteago ‘Tribune, Cincauo, Dec. U.—The pr pie on which there ia au rordiuary degree of nual umongst American papers who treat on Irish affain is this—nunel, Ment thoy Hve under tire nccountable for the wretch: edness, mlsers, degradation, and iznorimnce of the population they yo" 4s tht, im other words, fH tho poopli reject thelr schools, thet trades, thelr modes uf thought, thelr innguuse, thoir awe, thelr civillzation, Jt must be becauso theage, one wid all ure founded In some yrievous: Wronje, wind {2 would be futul ta thelr peace, both du this world and that to come, should they bu inetined tu follow. Iesistance to these, ope and: oll, ia the subliinest virtne, For seven centuries they have delled English fatiucnees, and now, tn sumo dozon wut ol thirty-two counties, the luw Is defied, and tho representation nude to tha world that 4 contlict Is unavoidable, J write not in defense of Uritish jegistation, though, Giking tho post fifty yours us exninple, show me a hiw introduced by an frishman to civilize, amellorate, or benetit the people, ‘Bho poor liws were opposed by O'Connell. the abotition of ‘the 40 shilling frecholtora ugreed on by hing true hy opposed every coercton act, and his oppusition ty: the respeotive Govern= ments may be measured by tho fut plives a sinecures he secured for sans, nephews, xo law, und hls numerous iegltimate oltapring. ‘True hye refused 20,000 year, whilst tho O'Connell fund was urly three times tho Minounts Thon na toeducadon, Biye squire novels: nyo a mixed Hoant with Cathulfe Archbishop on it was formed, 1 metiwith the dectdod op} tlon of the * Lign of j twenty” yours Inte! godless colleges; tho hitier years telat still have the opp tha Bishops, ‘Tho Lund uct of 1810 was work, or even the iden, of a nutive, Jook tn valu for philanthropy, stiteamanship, or unseltishness Inthe acta passed by tha Irish Parlament for tho Inst thirty yours, deed, one of the sayings of 0 pure and disinter> ested patriot, when O'Connell trst started the ery Ot repeat, was that, suener than bave the Hiutehinsons, Shunnons, and Voresfords ruling: tho country as thuy did, it would be better to hive the Céar of Ritdain Were. ou by your paper of tu-diy that you have all the Cults, wants, woes, and tlseries that you condemn England for right uuder us bere ln Minnesota, ft would be a curions fivestigution to tind out how many mechunies per cent there umongst the wrotched kerus who wei beoubt here with such a Mourish of trampots suing time since; how one gentleman gave his ommbuses; one vat dis time to describe tie newspaper bow glorious a thing itis to havea it the powers and pr pure Celtie culony, entirely devoted to thoir — clurny religion, no udinixs ture of anything duipure; and before tauy: lett there Was an cnthusiistle clergyman who advised then) not to speak the hated Saxon tongue; stick to the Guelie; mind thelr Iishop nnd clergy. Your columis speak the resi ‘Thoy ure itingry, deficient in firing, clothes, and nutriment. Now, by your own logie, aL have shown In the commencement, welte down as tage, bloody, and brutal the VErNINE WO: ve under. Hold it up to the exceration of the civillaed world, Reap vinls of imeorked wrath onits howd. Surely not one of your tumors readers but will bless you for the vet, lint, on the other band, if some wosentimental Anglos Saxons say: Hore, without tho assistance of the churitably disposed; here, without aud tn aplte of cloricul combination, wo get Gormans, Poles, Tussin, Norweginns, who, with exactly the stung Tenis, ave thriving and comfortable, do not complnie that such poopie say dt the dovtrine of tho survival of the Utrest fully ex pals the sud condition whiluh arises freon montal norance nnd gross suuret ait, My people ure perished fur want ot Knowledge, WILhlam: FRANCIS. (Thia writcr treata the wretchud condition of Ireland very superticlitly, and never once go jnuch na hits at tho real underlying causu of tho woos and miserivs of that island. What he says of tho now Irish land colony uf pioneers in Mbingsota beard not the slightest relation to tho ruck-ronted temints at will of the Irlah Ind tords, ‘Lhe Minuesetn colony have commenced thoir Curming life in extreme poverty, on unlite proved wild land, and it will neecsdirlly take few years before they cau have confortable homesteads ant plenty of crops and cuttly, Hut they ure not oppressed by American laws nor by American landlords, and they muke. no such complaint. Hence what Mr, Francis says in ros ward to thuf? prosent, tomporary wants ty wholly Irrolavant., But lot ua bring the condition of the Irleh farmer's home. to the comprehension of Amoriean readore, Suppose thy soll of ile vols were claimed by a few thousand New in glond cupttallats, who rented the whole State, from yenr tu year, to tha highest biddors, make dng every Hinola fariner a tenant at will, to be evicted and Huny on the pubtic bighway whon ever he falled to pay promptly, tarough fallure: of vrops, tho enormous rentals exucted, or was overbld by some one else, and whatever fm Provements or bettorments the tenant put on the Jand, in the way of bulldings, fencing, draining, and manuriug te be contisentod by the Inudiond whenever bls ugent threw tho tenant olf the jarm for auy enuse, Suppose thut, In ade dition to these grinding rentals, the IMinols tone Ant-farmers wore compolled to pay all the taxes for tho support of the Statu, County, and ‘Towns ship Government; and suppose tho rack-rents guounted to 60 or 100 millions of dallurd a your, taking, ne they would, uvery cont’s worth of tho farm products of tho whole State (beyond a mero pauper’s lying for the furmers) to pay tho rents; and Buppuse thaso absuntey New En- glund cupttulists okt tho price of the laud 6o bigh that not cue Milnofs tenant ina thousand could ever hope to buy an acre of ft, and hud no prospect fa He except to live on in thls talgeruble, hopoverlahed onsluvoment; bow long, taliey thie | Wo ask, would ft be before the (mpoverished and downtrodden Hltnols farmers woutd Join logethor to form a Tand Jengue In self-defense, to compet rensonable rents and to catabiish some system whereby thoy could have a chance of buying tholr farms at n fale price? Not Jong! In these “auppositions” wo havo faintly deseribed the condition of tho Trish farmers and tho remedy they seck,] aoe TERRIFIC ENCOUNTER, An Engliog a Dor, anda Flock of Geese the Combatants. Fltzabeth City CN. 0): Beonamiat, For nn fstund twelve mites tong and two wide, and inhiabitet by soine 700 people, Roanoke Istand ts been ns loud a apot as any of the sume # Inches on the globe. -It hua utions from the jump; and from the birthday of Virginia Dare, In 1585, to the bully fyht fast Friday, in which birds, bent and women bore a band, a period near nto years, it ans soldi beon without an eye-openar intha shype of asensation. It has bron tho seeny of fbloody fyhts between hostite Indian tribes and between elyiized armies in hostile sfirray, Savane and elyilized relies of remoto nes and modern convulsions are hidden bes neath or wiveswushed upon tho surface of Ita golden sands, “Tudian forts and calens andturmull attest its hoary’ history, Abel's wet “dow that sings in ehurch-meetings Aud the canary that. Htsctf in parrot Ens atish “atiost tho attainments of Hs peasta and ul in polite accomplishments. “Lewis Mann'a AL, alligators, hutehed and reared in 9 potatos i attest the fecundity of its goll—or the: yous fecundity of §, from the shore fs" luugtiation. ‘Iwo inflea at the palit at tho uteway to Oregon, He luscious bivalves. Wild fowl! of every natne feed upon ite prusacs. Hs ten tive tho best epeciinensa of stuiwart manhood; its women, of fenstnine loverness. ut to ou tule, On Friday, ut Ronnoke Island, wecaring eagle, toweling In the pride of bis inf@ht, turned his proud eyes from gazing at the sun upon tho quiet yard of Walter Dough. A flock of. geexo Invited his eye and tempted his taste. Tho glanee was father ty the thouxht and down he Vounced. The feathers few, the reese equawked, and there was a sensation In thot furmyued, and thore was n dog there, too. A ivose Js pus down aga fool. but (tis a vulgar error. A io0x0, 16a particularly str fellow, Aud go was thi¢ one the eagleastniek in Waltor Dongh's yard. As soon ns struck the xooto ran under the Howse (which was some fect above the ground) with tho enaie fastened to bur back, and the rest UE the Hock tn hot pursuit. And there tho tht agt nnd furious. Forty biting and dipping osu on one side, and the Klag Of bird’ on the gees 4 other, Mithough outmimbered, tho eagle mains tained the Nynt and eling to his viet, Hut sour mother enemy presented himsolt. An enemy more terrible than an temy of e088 =n bulleterrier dong. Uitte But Lull of Oyht, 16 wasn't fair: and the dog hud uo natural, belllig= erent richts thn combut between birds, but bo ene with a bound, and the eagle hud no tne to kettle questions of military ethies; 40 ho threw nitiself ont his tuck (eagle fashion) to so hie best inthis hunt tight betwoen toot and tounall, ‘The dog made uo lungo at tho. cagte’s Breast nud tho wigio struck Ma claws deep into the (doy's fore shoulder, ‘Thy blow was Mimultancous on elther. blows t ae Dut a terrier never, aud ay eagle Aardly e' aye, The only witnesses of the: dread cumbit were tho geese, Who now atood olf and looked on, and has Murti Brothers, who: wis alngiug to her spiining-Jenny in the house atone when the fight begin, and who in the end was to be worine hero, crowned with tho etory. Tho butte raged. Teeth siushed, chuvs stivod, eyes ached. Dutenles, Nke inet. contend gyainst odds when tight: ayauinst Inte, rnd so this cagto's benrt rank with in hin and, turning tall upon bis fon, ha sought eafety in tight, But bis retreat was slow and Tull of dittieulty, for be hast fifteen pounds of bull terrice swinying behind him. Me reacted the yard tenee, With one desporate effort ho doughttosciielt. He reuched 114 topmost rounds He boro aweizht he cotkd no longer carry, ‘Thore they stoud, victor nud vanquished, ‘Ton it was that Miss Martha trothors, the true hero of the fight, came to the front und won the pilin of victory, Solaing tho rail, with one fell swoap she came down witht crash pon the cuglo’s head, und left him prostrate, struggling in tho hgonles of death, tha victim ‘of t combination too powerful to be resisted. Alnus! poor enulas dle invasured nino fect betweon the tips of bla outstretched wings, ——— HUMOR, A fintshed performer—Tho dend actor, There is n decided change for the better When he loses, There Is nothing more chilling toan ardent Jover than the Beautiful’s No. y Tf you want to appreciate the genius of Shukspeare put yoursel in his: plays, Taradosical ny it may seen, | was called “rare Ben Jonson,” because his work, was done well, When a dead nin’s property fs put under the hanuner, it Isa gale of effects; but, whem non gets seasick, it Is the effect of n sath” “That fellow Is Just likg a telescope,” sald a dashing New York fue “You enn draw Win: out, see through him, and shut him up ugaln. Although very early this season, it hns al- ready been discovered Cat during the pres- ent Winter fee will, a3 Usnal, freeze with the slippery side up, ‘i ‘Che Boston Courter gives tho following wise piece of udvlee to its bachotor renders; © Never nnrey a girl wuiless you have known jer nt least tires days nnd plente.? “live you got tho rent ready at Inst?” “No, siry mothers gone ont washing, and forgot to putitont for you?’ Did she telt you she'd forgotten? “¢ Yes, str? Fidgety Lady—"But what mu todo? £ comt ride wit iny back to the engine! Ine solent. Youth—"Better speak to. the cou- ductor. He'll turn the traln round to oblixa you," A. Russinn clalma to have found anew silbstitiite for rubber, It is strongly suspect= ed that while ravellug inthis country re eda hum sandwich ata rail- i way restaurant. John Bullwill continue to send for Amerl~ enn beet until he finds hlmself confronted with a liink af the hind-lo of a ‘Tennessco steer, ‘Then diplomatic relations between tho EWD uations will evase,—sltuanta Constl- utter, Dicky had been silent during his Thanks. — elvhig dinner, but finally he rested his tat elbows on the table, with kulfe aud fork up right hy either land, and gave a great slut wud suld, “Lwish turkeys could be made double-breasted? : i It takes five gallons of whisky to cure an elephist’s:culd, and, slice this fact camo unt, seven, Now York men five been sent to ins sine ass ling, as OnE, ean convinces them that they ure not elephants sullering with colds,— Huston Post. oe Inherlfed Tendoucicn to Disoase, Jonson: tut * Methecbist, ‘ Tho present article ts bused oun valuable pas per by Der, dy Ke Huck, in the Popular Sctence Sontloy.. Sevouty Mhousdad, persons In Atuericg, yeurly dle with) consumption, most of whour pave lnherited thie disuise, Vast numbers tnherit wtenduney to rhounnithim, opllepsy, Hegre caneer, Indigestion, migeilie, nouraliitt. wut’ nt, and to carly loss oF signt und huaring. Na other entuse of geiet and sullermu compureg With that due to organty detuety banded dowd from parent to ohlid, OF our 40,000,000 of peos plo probably 20,000,007 Inherit some constitu Monit detect, Hut hitherto ttle bas been dung W arrest thoye tendencies, Physicians are culled only to tho sick. On tho contrary, those who Inve’ [nherited tendeneles to diiouge wre RKenerily ad curcluad of thelr health as others, while, ii the ene of those who already show tha tendeucy, tholrfrienda ure nptto pursue juvt the course mont Uicely to strongtben tt. Por ine AUHICe, 6 CONSUINPUVe I sbut Out frum the outs door ufe and qently userubio, tough theso ard iisonly hope. Moreover, the wholy Inilgonce of our soclal Hite aid practices cncournges the aquindering oF ViGU toyerye, uence, Wo tire degenurtloy 4s & Tho death-rute and birth-rate ned approximating. The diiferonce 13 ul ead in New Rayan than in uy country France alow excepted, ‘ut there Voore fs vo Inherunt dilloulty in tho way of ex< Urpatiyg hereditary Hygonte vara would aceuinplis” ft — such care aX can only vome from i imedival espert, and such ag wo aire allready to resort tain neute diveased, Able physicians have thus been able to extics mite tuberenlur consumption tru themevlyes, oir fuintlies, and deseondants, . a reudy of Bui ‘The Groat Showman Aska for Prayers, Ne a Thien, Bee Me Me. Pt, Barnum, woo ts lying Ol ta this olty, ‘asked the prayers ot tho clergy and congrega- Hons of Heetoernts Gath bis home, on Buns day, in the follawing appeals “ha a spirit at tirut rellunce on the omnipotent orm of Iti who dooth ail things well, J bored; request the prayers of all the congregations 7 Brldceport for is. bleasing to rest Upon ie, With thutikegiving forall the mercies wutel £ have Lltberte Bo ubundantly received wt Ila uns, BD Banus,” ne The Clovotand Ptatudedter, in an editorint Interylow artlely, mentions Mr. Byron Pope, formerly Depity Serie at Cleveland, us gentlenian who has put Bt Javobs Olt to w thorough text. -A muinber of hig fgunily sure > z fered severely trom. rheumatism, especially of the shoulders and fingers, ays WG wk tly the tingers could nut be moved without rent painyand it wus not until St. Jacobs H hid been used that a change wus elfected, oe dreaded complalut was removed by tha,