Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1880, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1880—TEN PAGE. ribwane, BACRIPLIONS n¥ MAIL~1¥, ADVANCH—108TAA Daily edition, onn years Paris oth font, per mank| uatly and Sunday, one aesday, Thursiny, and salarday, hoe year Nonday, Wednesday, and Friday. por E 10-pago edition, per oats... s PREPATH. 81 Ide 5.040 00 2.00 a WEEKLY EDITION—-POs Rha copy, per yen a0 bot fire, Rely ‘Twenty-one copi yy 20,00 Rpocimen copier sent free. Qivo Fos-Uftics addres th fall, incinding County and Ktate, Reinittanees tony bo mate olthor by drat, oxprass, ‘Poatomtics ordor, of in reaiatornd letter, nt our risk. TO CITY AUBACRINERS, Paity.doliverod, Sunday axcepted, 2A conta por weak. Lally deltvdred, Sunday included, 20 conte por Weak. Addrexs THE THIBUNT COMPANY, Cornor Madieon and Dearbornesta. 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MoeVicker's Thentre: Madison strert, betwoun State and Dearborn, Evgaxenient of Merrmann. Ioverts's Theatre, Penrborn streot, carnur af Monroe. Bngncemont of Hico's combination. “'he Now Kyangoling." Olympte 'Thentre, Clark streot, between Lako and Iandotpt, Engago- mentof Mitton Nobles, “The Phanix." New Academy of Mute, Tiaisted atreot, none Madison, West Sida. Hngage- mont of C, W. Barry. “Eacapod from Sing Stig." Central Mintle Malt, 5. Cornet of Rondolph and stato treats. ‘THO 'troupo of Trained Horses. Exposttion Wuttding, Take front, opposite Adams stravt. Whale oxhl- Bitton, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 50, 1890, Mn. Vernon promises “xn old-fashioned winter.” By that phrase he means a cold, crual, unpleasant, lee-botnt, and.rock-rooted winter, Yet we have been taught to con- siller old-fashioned things the Dest. Will tho now Head of the Weuthar Bureau please seo to It that In future we have now-fangled win- ters without intermission? Gex. Grant will soon blossom out as an anthor. [fv has agreed to dictate nn articty on the Interocesule Connl for the North aimerican Review, Tho Review ways $5 a page to ordinary contributors. it may give Gen. Grant $10, But, if ho ean keep tho wolf from the door by writing for the reviews, ho will have won a victory greater than Appo- tinttox. Tie popnintlon of twenty-seven States and five Terrilorlds, as reported by the Census ‘Dureau yestorday, 1s 310,(70,055, Adding LIM nols, the total ts 33,260,800, “Cho satne States (tnold Include) and ‘Perrltories Ind a “population of 26,005,514 In 1870, ‘The average Increase 1528 percent. ‘The States of Call fornia, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minne- sota, Misstasippl, Ohio, Penasylvania, Culo- rado, and Texas, and the Territories of Alns- ka, Arizona, Dakota, and New Mexico are not included. If tha ratty of Increase in thom should be the samo on tho average as iu the parts of the country already reported, the totat population by the new census would bo 49,795,735. Dut thoy will, in alt probability, slightly inerarse the ratio, ng Minnesota, “Dakota, Colorado, and ‘Lexas have had more thin the average growth, Tur more the molety bustness 4s stirred tho worse Itbecomes. ‘hore wasn great do- bate in the Honsy on that subject in 1874, Mr, Buck, of Kentucky, whose remarks waro quoted yestorday, was not tha only person Who spoke on that-oceasion, Mr. Kasson, the present Minister to Austria, was nother, Hiv sale that “Phelps, Dodge & Co. should have had the courage to stand wp for thelr Hehts and put tliose petty tyrants wider “their feet? Lhe -petty tyrants referred to were the Republlean Sonator trom Now York, the present Governor of New York, the Vice-President clect, and some other persons, Wouldu’t It bo well for all persons concerned to drop tho discussion uf the molety business? In the Janguage of the beautiful and accomplished daughters of Maj.-Gen, Stanley, “Lot us talk about the Weather,” eee Suounv the members of the Board of ‘Tratte vote to-day, na they undoubtedly will, to retnove from thelr present oramped-up und fnudequate quarters: to the enpactous Dullding proposed to be ereeted In front of tha Grand Pacltic Hotel, f will take two years at least from fiext May before the now quarters ean be eceupled, and by that tno owners of rent catate on Clark, Ln Suite, Van Buren, and Sherman streets ant Pa- cife avenue will’ have provided all the bulldings and nll the stores and offices needed. to meet the wants of produce-deaters and othors who wilt seek quarters in the neigh- borhood of the Board of rade; while tho other crowd, the luwyers and others, whoso business 8 In conneetion with the Courts and City and Coutity Governments, will Alt up the places nent the Clty-Hull inde vacant by the Bonrd of ‘Trade men swarintug towards Jackson street, ‘Ta veteran editor of the Wisconatn State Journal has written a pungent reply to ex- Senator Howe's lutter on the Senatorial quos- tlun, Gen, Atwood fivat reminds his readers, {hat Mr, Mowo's judginent {3 not always ine fallible, fur it was he who sald in a public Speceh, os Inte as Oct, 8), 1880; L therefore thought, and 1 still think, the Clteago Con- vention committed ona of those blunders which fs first cousin to a erlme when It nonnated Garlieki” But there aro other and wore apecitie ubjeations to be mnde to Nr. Mowe's styly of argument, What ean be thought of the candor or falrness of a anan who will hold .the Chalrinnn of 1 Stato Central Couunittee solely responelble for the success or fallure of his party? Mr, Jlowe does preelscly this thing, Ho seems to bu- Move thas ft was E, W, Keyes and not Gran- eriam, of the temporancelasuc, or corruption Patz beehuse he tnd Wi hls pocket tnoney whieh thé peopla tought should tinve been {n the Treasury of the United States. It { noteworthy also that Mr. Howe did not give Keyes credit for thé elections of 1874, 1875, Rnd 1876, to sag notliag of 1203, 1869, 1870, 1871, out (873, during all whieh time he was Chairmnn of the State Central Commilten, td did not dye the State, From every polit of viow, Sonntor Ifuwe's lettus must bo re- garded as unfortunate, Lt will do Keyes no harm, while it may be nit Injury to the cause of Mr, Saieyor, who has done nothing ty do- serve su indiserect a champion, and would Ue himself the Ist man to employ suo Weapons. It wold bo better for all cun- corned that the two leading eaudidates should go before io Legtslature without prejudice to the guod standing of oither In the party. earceenememenrereeenen A.M. Chave tins teft the Washington Ze publlenn, and now puts it his syare tlie In the profitable occupation of writing lettors tu the Bulfato newspapers. In his last eifort he compares the merits of Bufalo and Chieaxe tu tho ndvantago of the former, Mr, Clapp has been a little perturbed by x paragraph in Tuy Trmuxe on thecommerce which passes through Buffalo Creck, Lots compelled to admit that most of the grain recelyed thore comes from Chiengo, but he thinks he Itng clinched his urgument when ho says that “The gratn is not grownin onvelty more than in the others? Noy but ft ty owned tn one elty moro than fn tho other, That ts tha polnt. Chiungo energy collects It Chicago money buys it, and Chiengo brains ship and fell it, Accidentally it passes. through o toll-gate at Buffalo, but that fsno reason why the toll-keeper should swell up and inngnify his {mportanee. Mr, Clapp says: “Chicago is grent, but its sonse of modesty doves not compurt with that which attaches to trio greatness.” To be frank nbout it there ts no demand for “sense of modesty ” In this market. It is not asalablecommodity. ‘They don’t quote iton the Board of Trado, and thatis where all the rates of exchange aro fixed In this community, —— ‘Tite argument, or threat, or warning, ns It mmy be, that those who engage in real- estate speeuintion based upon arise in the vatue of property near Jackson strect will ‘be disappointed and suffer loss, has no pos- sible bearing upon the question whether the Board of ‘Trado should now imake arrange ments for. removal to new quarters and with sufliclont accommodations two years hence; nor does it furnish any reason why the Bonrrd of Trade should remain any longer than possible couped up three flights of stairs and packed Ike sardiues in thelr own oll, Another reason given ts, that the proposed location is “too cramped’; and another fs, that “ the better classes of business could not if they would, und would notif they could, follow to the south.” If the business of Chleago was forever to be limited to the number of Individuats now ownlog proper- ty near Lr Salle and Washington streets, and the same persons were: to live forever, thon porhaps there might bo foreo in these objections} but tho same reason which necessitates 2 new bullding three or four tines the sizo of the present one, necessitates a Hko expanstoen of the nelghborhood In which the bus! hess 13 ty be done, The fact ta Liat. tho removal itself Is for no greater distanee than the removal from South Water street to Washington. All the business needful tu be transacted in the tmmedinte neighbor- hood of the Board of Trade tall will follow that hall; all other will remain or go else where, consulting its own conventence and advantage. ‘This will be the case under all cireumstinees; but the {den that the imme- diate neighborhood of Washington and La Salle streets is to be the exclusive seat of Louard of ‘Trade business In Chiengo ts pre- posterous, The crownlog arguinent, hovw- ever, Is the only substantial one that Is urged, and that is thuta removal would be tho gross- est kind of 1 violation of the faith on which tho owners relled whon they put up thelr costly bulldings all around the site of the present structure, ‘This appeal is shuply childish, As well might the srloonkcepers whose establishments now face the City- Iu! on Adams street protest against the removal of the City Government to tha corner of LaSalle and Washington. Ltke protusts wero nitude some years ago against the location of the Post-OMice, Custom-Ilouse, and United States Court-House Bullding at the corner of Dearborn and Monroe strects; and some years Inter thot it was a violntion of falth to remove these oflces further south to Jackson street. Such an objection as this is utterly puerlle,—tho plonding of the baby law, ‘The Bonrd will act on tho question accord- ing to {ts merits. A now site and a new building are linperative. Where can they bo obtained on the best terma? ‘That question 1s overwhelmingly answered by the terms of the propgsition to be voted on to-tay. NEW QUARTERS FOR, THE BOARD oF ’ TEKADE, Tho provosition to bo*voted on to-day by the members of the Board of ‘Trade ts tho neceptance of tho offer of Mr. Scott, of Erle, Pa., todonate the north half of the block lying betweon Paeliic avenue and Shernian street and Jackson and Yan Buren streets, on cone dition that a Salle street, so far us it divides that Llock, be vacnted, and that the Board erect on the site, whose size Is 208 by 316 fect, a building to cost not less than $470,000, The exceedingly favorable character of this offer hns commended {t to the approval not only ofa yast majority of those doing business on the Doard of ‘Trade, but also to the merchants and busiuess-mon generally of tho clty, It 1s conceded on all sldes that the presont quarters owned by the stock- holiera of the Chamber of Commerce are wholly Insufictent, and that ina clty whose poptilation Is now inereusing at tho rate of 40,000 a yenr, and whose business 1s lnereas- Ing oven In greater proportion, tho present all or exchange will bo absurdly Mmited uven fn two years from now, when the new building can be completed, , As ond member forcibly expresses It, “The members are now packed In the hall like matches In a box, ant now the box 1s altos gether too sual.” Itia admitted that long before 1800 n removal will have become an frrepresslble necessity, and yet tho removal is objecteit to by certain persons on several krounds; ‘That the scheme to movo the Board of Trade to Jackson street isn mere realestate fob, managed by a pool having Juuiite sell in the new nelghborhood, ‘So this ft ts asutilelent answer that the Board obtains 1 site with streots on threo sides anit & wide court on the other, on which a bulld- ing of more than 200 fect square can bo eréetetl, and the cost to the Board for this magnificent block Is the nominal sum of $4,000, Pool or no pool, the Board of Trade obtalns 9 sito such as ts now hapossiblenorth: of Javkson strect, and ten yents hones will be impossible to oblain north of ‘fwelfth street for Joss than half ainiilion of dollars, Another answer ts, that the objections to the proposed removal cone exclusively from the renlestate pool Interested tn keeping ut Washington, or the nection of tho two Senators from Wisconsin {1 pocketing ‘the sulary-xrab, that caused the -election .of “Saylor In 1878 Gen, Atwood dues riot sub- aeribe to this opinion, Hu calla attention to * the fact that Senator Howe hiinself was “blanketed and stabled” during that cau- and cramping the Board In fis present notori« ously Inadequate quarters, If persons out- side wniortake real-estate speculations based upon any proposed public hnprovenient, thas is no legitimate reason why the Improvement should nut goon. ‘The County Court-House is now ueurly ready for occupancy; jn a short timo tho now Clty-1iatt will aldo be ready. ‘Ths will necessitate the removal of twelve courtly and all thetroMecrs, tho County Governient, Ineludlig thd entite tax-nssess- (ng aul tax-collecttng departments, the water oltice nnd the Board of Public Works, and the Recorder's offer, ‘These will be removed fo the block faced by the pres ent Chamber of Commerco Buthting, . At present every square, foot of offleeroom In that vieinity ts in demand, and when the tutire departments of the City and County Governments are crowded into the aame lo- tality thy owners of the private property {hore will be able to demand and uxtort froin tho competing tenants, lawyers and met- Chants, not only high but rack rents for of- flvees,—tho rents, agin Ireland, equating tha enliro profits of each tenant's business. Wo can understand why a pool of tandlords, to obtain excessive rents, can oppose this re moval, and cat nlso understand why the vie- tintzed tenants will yote for deliverance, ‘The attempt to crowd oll tho business of 0 Rreat and growing elly into the small con pass of half a dozen bulliings 13 too absurd to be tolerated. > THE COLD SNAP, The wenther ts the frttitful tople of con- yersntion, ‘Che thermometer ts a lively ob- ject uf interest. Che prognosttentions uf the new Old Probablilttes are sought for before the market reports or the brief chronicles of marringe and death. Lelng no respector of persons, tho blizzard asserts {tself in the com- fortable homes vf tho rich and sin the wretched hovels of the poor, and nips with Uke avidity aristocratic and plebelan car, Jt hag been m rennrkavle season, Wo Jumped froin sinter hito winter with no enjoyment of the auttnn hazes, the plens- ant alrs, or soft sunlight of the Indian suin- mer. Winter began a month earlier than usual It deranged all commercial plang, It locked up tho canals, the lakes, and the water-courses with Its Joy fetters.. Lt caught and held millions of bushela of graln in transit, It blocked up tens of thousands of tons of merchandise. It stripped the country of fuel. Consumers thought they had thirty days more in which to lay in thelr con, ‘The rattrond companies enleulnted they would havea full mouth in which to haul coal from the mines and distribute It to the various markets. ‘Then eame a universal demand, emphasized by the soverity of the season, and no supply to mectit. It froze up the streams, ‘Lhere were no fall ralns. ‘Tho springs wore not replenishal, ‘Che wells ran low. And then came the frosts, maid now, In our brond prairie country, Itty dificult to find water, and farmers have to drive their stock long distances, "There tins been Ittle snow and the ground has frozen down decp, thereby threatening serious dam- nge to the fall wheat, whieh lacks the warm protection of its snowy coverlld. It was thought that this early winter would last but n week or two, and woul bo fotlowed by warm ond genlal wenther; but 1b was. not so ‘I'liree dreary weeks with- out sun ensued, a heavy, Jeaden ean- opy of clouds enveloping us, ‘Then came a sudden sunburst, bub with it a biiz- zard from the North Pole, rolling a sea of fey alr-waves before It, chilling and benumb- lug everything it touched. ‘The thermome- ter dropped ken plummet, wot slowly, but with an Instant tumble, toa polnt that his eheeked business, stopped atl building oper- ations, and delayed tho farmers hn their win- ter work, For three days the pitiless north- west wind Jins swept over the elty, bringing Tleaven knows what suffering into the homes of tho poor and amiting man and beast alike with its dey srrows, but bringing with It Ug niuch of compensation: thatit has made the weather healthy and dry and lins Infused people with s briskness and liveliness of gult that superinduces plenty of healthful exer- clse. ‘The coll waves Ihave sprend over an enar- mous aren, coverlng the entire territory bo- teen the Locky Mountains and the Attuntic seaboard, and sweeping down even to the Gulf of Mexteo. ‘These fleree blasts have an uninterrupted course before them, ‘Thora Aro no mountain ranges between us and the Arctic regions to regulate or mitigate their strength and velocity. The “ Manitoba waye”? ts in reulity not a wave from Manl- toba, fer that Is a {Int country, and these icy breezes have thelr staring pluce way up in the Mudson Bay reglon, whence they lave an untnterrupted range to tho south jand southenst, with fardly a hill to arrest their feartul sweep. Evon the Allegheny rilgo has proven no barrier to thom, ‘Thoy have swept on and over [t, and far out to sen, entehing vessels coming westward, retarding commerce, disabling steamers, and sorlously Inferrupting the whole business of ocean transportation coming In Unis direction, Tt has been aud still tg a season of extraor- dlunry soverity, eapeelally ng compared with Jost winter, when thore was not cold enough to ninko Ice, except during a few days In the entiler part of tho season, ‘There will bo no trouble this year, Dealers will not have to send abroad for Ice, but can harvest it any- where In nl-saficlont quantity, nor will there be any exense for high prices next sim- mer, We aro In fact having January weath- er in December, and oven had itIn November, whereas ordinarily we have but very little calit weather until after New Year's, ‘Thls ts what we have, andl now what remains? Wo havo yet sixty more of the short days and wenk sun and Arctle cold, with every promise of a continuance of tho present severity, It behooves aur readers, therefore, to prepara for it, and then avo to it that the suffering of the poor shall bo lessened as inuch 1s possible, In comforta- Die homes there enn be little ‘appreciation of the terrors of these cold wihids, searching every nook and corner of thelr tenements, and making sport of thelr scant fires, which, In thesa tines of Migh-priced fuel, ean hardly do more than cook thelr food, Thore can hardly be a wore gentle or grateful charity than to bring warmth tinto tho eablis of tho poor and rellof to the homeless wanderers In these days of biting cold, JUDGE COOLEY FoR THE SUPREME BENOH, Thoenrly rotirementol Mr, Justice Swayne, of Ohlu, from the Supreme Court of the United States Is regarded ns certain, as he ts now very old and frail Hu wilt probably not retaln hls seat very long after tho holl- days, Itwill devolve upon President Mayes to solect hly successor, Dreslient Hayes has enjoyed exceptional opportunities for juadl- elal appolatuents during hig Administration, ond has suecceded for the most part In snthi- tying atl suctlons of thocountry and all shades of political opinion, except periaps the ox- treme Bourbon clement of the South. ‘The selection of Justice Swayne's successor, hows ever, Which ought to bo tho easiest task that remulnsfor him to porferm, muy be embar- rassing on account of certain alleged pore son and State relntions which suggest to Lim the appolutinent of a gentleman whose wouination for the positon would be ree colved with many misgivings by the people at large, and would probably encounter stubborn, mid woe think successful, reslst> ance In tha Senate, President Mayes may, nevertheless, find an easy cseapo from any such embarrassment, because there is one man available for the position who iy Atypy of Atness In every way, und whose appolutinent would command such untversal upproval os to compensate for any personal sucrifice und would silence ull erittelsay froin Uso owly quarter whence It would he likely to. come, Nefore the Atnerlean people atlarge, tho high positfon of Judge Cooley os a Jurist will Instantly dwart any personal elaima which Btauley Matthowa may have upon the President or the Ohto circle of pollticlans, ‘The elreuit represonted by Justice Swayne ‘Sneludes Michlgan, Ohio, Tennessee, aud Kentucky, ‘Tho theory of geographical dis tributlon of Supreme Coftrt Judges woult demand not merely that tha sicecssor to Justice Swayne should be selected from this clreult, but also from the Stnte of Michigan in preference to tho other threo States in- eluded within the terrltery mentioned. Julgo Harlan was taken from Kentucky, Ohlo has now, and has had for many years, two Suprome Judges,—Chief-Jitstice Walle of ‘Toledo, sluce Chaso’s death, and Justice Swayne of Columbus, This ts not a reason why Olde should porpotually have tivo of the nine Supreme Judges, but rather a renson why,’ in the course of new appointments, sich diserfinitnation {n favor of Ohto should be avoided. ‘Lwo of the other States—Tennessea and Kentucky ure Southorn States; and the seat made vacant by tho resignation of Judge Davis was takun from Uinols aud given to Kon- tucky, in order that the South should have a representative, And now tho seat made vacant by the resignation of Judge Strong, of Pounsylyania, has been given to Judge Woods, of Georkt, so that the South is now pretty well represenied by those two able Justices, The Chief-Justice (Walte) is an Ohto man While these conditions. shouht operate, to somg uxtent, to oxclude three of the States ofé-o elrenit from additional representation, hehigan has very decided elalms of Its own, by podson of its population, wealth, in- talligence, and progressive charactor. All other things belng equal, Michigan should certainly be preferred in any geographical conslderation of the case, ana that ¢lalm is wonderfully strengthened by tho fact that Judge Cooley Is a resident of the State, There aro other considerations of still greater moment that point to Judge Cooley as thesmost obvious selection that can bo junde for the vacancy that will be ocensioned by Justice Swayne’s retirement, Only two other candidates besides Judgo Cooley have been named with any prospect of appointment, Ono fs Chancellor Cooper, of ‘Tennessee, who probably stands Ilttle chanco of appointment, and the other is Stanloy Matthews, of Ohio, who ought to bo ‘excluded on personal grounds, It Js seareely worth while to mention the sume of Senator Thurman, who, the Demoerats clalin, ought to be appointed to avold the fmputation of inaking the Supreme Beneh a partisan insti- tution, 16 is sufleient to say In regard to this, that a Chief Executlyo elected by people who belleve in the Nattonal theory of Goy- ernment could not find any justification for appointing to the chief judiclary branch of the Government a confirmed believer in tho doctrine of State-sovereignty, whieh has al- rendy enused tho cotntry so much trouble. Hence tho cholce seeing to Mo between Judie Cooley and Stanley Matthews, Tho Iatler, without disparagement jn other respeets, may fairly be satd to be mueh moro of an ndvocitte than a jurist. Ils sneeess In Tife hns been made ns an attorney, and not merely that, but. largely as an attorney for rallroad corporations, against whose greed aul extortion the people must rely inainly upon the Supremo Court for protection, ‘That Stanley Matthows is not able to divest himself of the preferences aud prejudices of an advocate, nor able to esenpe the Influences with which an inthnote nssoctation with the corporation interests have enelreled him, was sufficiently tested during hiy brief earver In the United States ‘Senate, It was while Matthews was in the Senate serving out Sherman’s time that Thurman’s bil came up tacompel tho Pacitic Initroads to pay lito tho United States ‘Treasury one-quarter of their net earnings, to apply on thetr Indebt- edness to the Governtnent upon which they Und practlenlly defaulted. ‘Che proposition was cluarly In the Interest of the people, and 80 lonlent townrd the corporations, whose railroads had beon built for them by the Gov- ernment, that no man of the people could faltly antagontze tt, Yet Gould and Munt- ington wero In Washington with a strong lobby to defent tho mensure, and Stanley Matthows, aa Senntor, espoused thelr side of tho case against the people, Je nade ® conspicuous and stubborn resistance to the Thurman bill, which afterwards became a Jaw In apite of hhn., He took the indefensi- ble position that the owners of the Pacliic Railroads should bo permitted to continue pocketing oxtravagant dividends upon wa- tored stock that did not represent thio tnvest- ment of a dollar, and at the same time tu re- Suse the payment of Interest on the moneys advanced by the Government for the bulld- ing of the roads a3 well ns all provision for tho ulthuate extinguishment of the debt they owe the Government. No matter what mo- lives prompted Matthews to take this posl- tlon, it revenled a conviction, or at least a practice, which should forover shut him out from an opportunity of passing upon such questions in the capneity of Judge of the highest constitutional Court In the Nation, Tho fitness of Judge Cooley for the Su- premoe Bench, on tho other hand, is unl- yersntly conceded. He has been for along term of years n supremo Judge In hisown State; he fs at the head of tha largest school of Inw in the country, and he iz tho most ominent of living American writers on law matters. ‘Cooley on Constitutional Limita- tlons ? Is recognized as the ublest treatise of its kind that has over been written, and his works, including Supreme Court reports, digests, nnnotations of IInckstone, trentlses on taxutlon and legal wrongs, and text-books aro standard authorities, Such n man, it avaliable, ought not to be spared from tha Supreme Court, and Justices Swayno’s re- {irement will afford an appropriate opportue ty for securing his services, President Hayes will make ono of the most serfous mistakes of his Adutnistration if he shall fall ‘to appoint Judge Cooley upon Justice Swayno’s retirement, and that mistake will bo tremendously agaravated It his chotce fall upon Stanley Matthews, who Is notably unillted for the position. for which Judge Cooley is most conspicuously adapted. | Tuenr is some hope for the failly of Jot- fotsun Davis yet, A ellizen of Nashville Intely called on the former head of the Cons federnoy, and reports aconversatlon with Sirs, Davis, In tho couro-of which she said: “Ishould bo sorely grieved !f one of my ehildren should think better of any other country than of Amoriea. I would not, therefore, have my sons educated abrond, though circumstances hava mado It proper for wy daughter.’ Mr, and Mrs. Davis will goto Europe In June tor thelr daughter, Notwithstanding reports to the contrary, Jofferson Davis dovs not temembor oyer to have seon Abraham Lincoln, but he has distinet reeolluctions of Jackson and Cale houn, Albert Sldnvy Johnston was his favorit among the Southern Gener- als. «A gentleman visiting the famlly spoke in a complimentary way of Mr. Mayes’ Adinialstration, Mtr, Davis remarked that Unyes did not recommend a reduction of his own salary, Ju wdded that ofticlal sularius were too high, and told how members of Congress used to mess together. “The form of our Governmout 13 safest," is obsorved sontontionsiy, “when tho peopto aro poor.” ‘Tho unfortunate nan may justify the Hebeitlon now on th! urtaln ground, THE REVOLT OF THE PRO-SLAVERY BOERS, Tho history of tho Hitle ‘Transyant Repub- Ie, whose people, the Boars, are now In re belllon ngalnst the authority of the English Government, {9.0 rontantle one, and, In ome sense, tho revolt of the Moors resembles tho secession of our Southern States, silico the former Hko tho latter has for Uta primary totlve the progurvation of slavery, thougl other Issues entered into the annexation of their country to Great Dritatn. = Tho Dutch established thelr tirst settle lnonts In South Africans long ago ns 1052. ‘The colony continued to grow slowly but steadily tntil 170, whert tt was Inyaded and conquered by the British, In 1903, at the penco of Amiens, !t was given up to Hol- Jane; but, to keop it from falling Into tho hands of tho French under Bonapnrte, tt was again occupied by British troops fn 1800, Slnee that the tho British boundary has been continually pushed back further south, - and enlarged by conquests and annexations: of the adjoining tribes and districts, As tho Englisli emigrants poured tn, the Telative Importance of the Dittelt began to dwindle awny. Between the English coto- Alsts and the Dutch Boers there was neither sympathy nor alillation,—on the contrary, a very cordlal hatrod,—and when their colony Was transferred to Great Britain this hatred grew more Intense. ‘Khe primary cause of it was slavery, ‘ho Boers were staveliolters, and cruel onesat tliat. ‘She English colonists woro bitterly opposed to the system. As soonns the transfer was mado the Bours iunnifested a disposttlon to eseapo frem En- kllsh rule, using the argument that, as the English did not like slavery and they did, thoy had the right to go beyond tho Jimits of Hnglish rule, establish a colony of thelr own, and matutain thelr peculiar institution. ‘The English at first sought to prevent thelr jnigration, ind In 1886 tho right was Invest! gated by the Atlorney-General'of the Colony, who deelded that, while the old Duteh laws prevented them from crossing the border of the colony, they could not proyent thom from seeking thoir fertunes in other Jands, But a still stronger motive urged tien on, for in 184 a Inw was passed to emancipate all the alayes in the colony, the Inw to tnke effect In 1838, ‘This threatened to overthrow the entire domestic institutions of tho Boors, for they wero founded upon slavery us firmly and completely ag,the Inst!- tutions of our own Southern States prior to tho Rebellion, The emanetpation Inw de- clued them to go, and - tho exodus com- menced about the year 1830, When they iret made their way Into the country that ls now called tho Transvaal, they were on thelr way to Natal. While pursuing their course neross whnt Is nowenlled the Frea Stato they encountered a formidable Zulu Chief, who nenrly exterminated thelr advance guard, With reinforcements, however, they succeeded in driving lin off, ant settled in Natal. Slavery was revived by the Boers, and then came an order from the Governor of the Capa Colony appointing British Magistrates oyor thom, Under the leadorshipof Andrens Pretorius, a most uncumproiishig Dutch Puritan, and aman of erent courage and ability, a rebell- jon was instigated agninst English authorl- ty, the object of It belng tho independence of the slaveholding Boers lying south of the ‘Vaal River, 30 1840 the Governor fssued a proclamation denying their right to form an Independent slaveholding community: even beyond British boundaries, The struggle which ensued lasted for oven or eight years with varying sucecss, and ended $n the de fent of the Bours nt the decisive battle of Boom Plants, Pretorius Med ficross the Vaal with some of his followers, and establisned asort of pro-slayery Republle, In which thero Wns the most perfect freedom for the white Dutchinan,.but, a3 events proved, none for tho black native, ‘The English renlized the uselesness of following them further, for If thoy werenttneked there, neross the Vani, they would only move further north, and con- tinue moving with each fresh attack tilt they were beyond the Equator or up Into the Grent Desert itself, Accordingly thoy inndo ntrenty {1 1852 recognizing the so-called Re- public, ‘This treaty contained two provls- Jons of special Intorest, ‘Che first prohibited slavery in the new Repubile, and the second declared that, in consideration of this con- cession, the British would moke no alliances with tho natives north of Vaal. Tho first elatise was fnstantly disregardéd by tho Hoers, and tho second lett the natives in thelr country nt thelr mercy so long asthe British observed the agreement. they had mide, The system of slavery was rovived, The Boers raided upon the natives and selzed men and women, reducing them to staves, Whenever encounters tool: place between them, tho prisoners wore always eld as slaves, Worse than this, the chil- aren of natives who rebelled agalnat tho ox tension of the Boer authority were bound ns apprentices in the Boer famllleg, and.ns such wore used ng slaves, Remonftrances wero In vain. ‘The Boers claimed that the condl- tion of thetr vietlms was Improved by contact with clvillzation,—ns did our Southern slave- holders, and, Hike the Iatter, Pretorius, who was a very religious man, and who based bis religion upon tho Old ‘Testament, justified his course by the Scriptures. ‘Trotlope, in his history of South Africn, gives an inter- esting sketch of his ylews on this subject, Alls favorit toxt ‘was tho commant to the Israclites either to ‘slay or enslave the sur- rounding tribes, Mr. Trollope says: “Pro- torlus folt that such were the commands alven to him in reference to those natives among whom lis fof hnd cast him, They wero to him the people of tho elles which woro ‘very tur off,’ and whoin he had Divine order to enstave, while the moro unforlimate ones who would still faln ocoupy the Inula on which it suited him ant his people to awell wero ‘the Tittltes and tha Amorites, tha Canannites and the Perizaitea, the Mivites and the Jebusites, whom the Lord nad commanded im to d Stroy. With such authority before him, and while black Inbor was so necessary to tho cultivatton of the land, how could he doubt about slavery?” It dovs not seem to have occurred to Pretorius, howover, that he was violating a solemn agrecment of treaty. The Pretorian polley was carried out to tha Inst degree, and those who could not be enslaved were cruelly massacred, one entire tribe having been amothered ant starved to death within the caves in which tt had taken rofuge, At fast, after repeated remon- atrances from the English, which werd of no avall, tha Goyernuent suttled the problem by the forelblo annoxation of the ‘Trans- vaal in 1877, ‘The Voers have walted thelr opportunity, and now that the Basutos, 9 powerful tribe, have rovelted, owing to the determination of tha Government to disarm them, they have risen In revolt, and declared tholr independence, with the old Pretorian idea still in mind of retstublishing slavery, The English polfey of annexation has been very serlously criticised even In England, aud Js usually justified on the plea of polite feal necessity, though to tho humanitarian thers would seom suticient justification In the determination of the Boers to maintain human slavery, even In the face of treaty stipulations to the contrary, Whatover ylew way bo taken of tho annoxation, it Is evident enough what tha result wilt be, ‘Though tho struggle iny be wv long one, the Boers In the efut will bo defeated, and alavery will nob bo redstablisher In the Transvaal; and, ns this Is {nthe interests of huntantty, thelr defent will not be a deplorable ealainity, Birthpinces of Ulinols Govornors. ‘To the Fattor of The Caleago Tribune, Omcagg, Dee 2—Tne Crinuxy of this Morning males n mistake in wiving tho place of tho birth of two of the Governors of this State, Gov, Augustis © French was born in Now Cheater (now (0M, Ne HL Gov, ‘Thomas ord ‘waa born In Uniontown, Pin, in 1400, bat came ta MUnole tn 10h, J, Wentwour, Mr. Wentworth ta right in his corrections, Tho polnt mate by Tie Cnrstrn, that every one of the persons appuintent or clecteil to the office of Governor of Miinvla, from 180) to 1880, was, In tha Southorn sense, a “carpot-bigger" from same other Stato, is nut affected by the correc- Uons, — ‘Tins following description of Connecticut, from tho * American Musenin " of 1700, has beon sent to the Now London (Conn.) Telegram by Mr. Daniel Lees “ Here fond romembranca stamps hor much loved MUA, Ifere bonata tho soil ta London and its Thames, Throughout bor shores cummodious ports whound: $ Clear tlow tho waters of tho varying ground. — + |. Cold nipping winds a lengthened winter brings Inte rise tho products of a tardy spring. The broken toil a int'ring mee requires; Huch barren hill ita gen'rous crop ndmire Where Nature weartly did hor gifts impart, Yor, ainiling, owns how much sho owes to Art, Tut, keon as winds that guide her snintly rote, All bow to lucre--all are bont dn gal, aia chance decreed, thelr various tots aro hrowns ‘Its home euch rere, ev'ry mile tte town, With gilded spire, the frequent church is secon, Sacred to Mim why tuught them to bo keen. Esternal eqnabbiings grease tho lawyer's paws All have thotr sults, and all have studied hy, With Sorte, that Art and Nature taught to apauit, Bone many tn Latin, somo dispute In Greek. Proud of thelr books, fn ancient lore thoy shine, And one month's study makes a tearn’d diving. Yond to converse, with deep doslyning views ‘They pump tho tray'llng stranger of his naw. a Says an exchange: “Col. Ingersoll ts ree ininding the pubtic of tho fact that thors Is ono vortion of tho United States‘ where the peaple enjoy nono of the rights of self-government, Tho Disteiet of Columbitt is ruled by threa Com missioners uppolnted by the President, and tho Inhabitants do not voto because thero are ‘no elections, ull tho offices being fiited by appolnt- ment. In theory tha Government {s a3 autos cratic as that of Siam, but jn practice it has proved nuch more satisfactory than the system of w Legislature and popular suffrage whieh it supplanted, and which produced Boss Shepherd and the Washington Hing.” Washington baa tried both methods of muntetpal government, and nino-tenths of the taxpayors greatly prefer tho present way. Under tho old régiine, a corrupt ring of domnagogs wilted with the Communistica rabble, binok and white, to rob tho taxpnyera and plunder tho city; and the same rascals aro nuxious tu bave tho old atate of things brought back, Thoy are auhungered, and the rabble are athirat, for a restoration of tho good old times, and a uewscurnival of stenling. Tho naked truth 1s, tho populace of Washington Ig not iit for municipal self-government, They ura too dishoncat, —— nd Tue Madison (Wis,) State Journal gives tho following oxplunntion of the breach betweon E,W. Keyes and Judge Howe: ‘ Mr, Howe claims to htve been personally friendly with Mr. Keyes til nbout 1873, We are aware that in he appreehted Ms energy and ability as a lawyer, by proposing his nang und Jnalating upon iis appolntuiont as the attorney ta represent thy Interests of the Nationul Gov erninent before tho arbitration of the matters involved In the Fox and Wiaconsln Rivers Im- provement Campuny, Phat he represented those rests well Is shown inthe fact that ho se. cured tho property of the Inprovement Com- pany nt $145,000, when the then honorable Sana- tor (Mr. Howe) deomed that. $100,000 world not be v high price for its aud we buve understood the Senator censured the attorney for having 80 eltectunily uiselr his dutics to the Qovern- mont in saving 82,000; and Unt, since this a the friendship between the Senator and Mr. Koyes has been measurably broken up. Tho NeXt tnd imost erlovous olfonse of Mr. Keyes was his disagreeniont with tho Senittor Jn somo portions of a Navona address that bo had writ. ten for elrenintion in the enmpaiga of 1871, and lis refusal, as Chairman of the State Central Committee, to give that docmment extensive elreutation In tho Stato, This mny account for the very poor opinion Mr. Howe hia of the nd- imintatratlon of Mr. Keyes as Chairman of tho Brute Committeo, ——— OF tho olivo harvest of 1880 n Naples cor- respondent of the London Daily News writes: “ According to the Inat reports, the olfves In tha Trovinees of Pugiia and Calabria aro of unuati- ally good quailty, Tho tempornturoe could not have been better than it wae during the Inst six weoks,n period essentiat for the definitive ripon- Ing of tho fruit, which Jn coneequence is 80 firmly attached to the branches that none falls, and iteun be plucked at leisure, In Calabria, eapcolally, not sn olive lins fullen,—s thing that has not beon noticed for many yenra,—and, If tho weuthor continues go mild and without frost, thoro 18 4 cortainty that tho fruit witl ylold all of exceptional quality and quantity. The markets at Gora and Gallpoll are calm, with ilttle busi- ness dolny, and, if no furthor reduction In prico 44 veriiled, It is only beenuge tho actual pricoot ofl 4 already tow enough for an abunlant har- veat, fram whi¢h foreign countries lave atill to Jay in thelr large stores, Reports frum Spun, the Joniun Islands, Greece, and Tunis ure also execilent; the lust plico will ylekt a harvest theoo times idore than tho average quantity.” a Tux Cleveland Platndeatcr ropents a charuotoriatie story relating to Kuto Chase Sprague, which hor futher used to bo fond of telling: . On tho occasion of. a lata party Mrs, Hpraguo sont for ber conehmat, and told bin what duties #he oxpeoted of him,—cither to open the door or ag#lst fn the clonk-ronm, Tho conchman dee inurred, and impudently answered that be was. hired to drive the horses, und not to hotp In the house, Very well,” sald iny Ludy Kathering, “have my currliuge at the door ats o'clock." A! Stho carriage drove up, * Blunkot tha horses and walt unt I sond further word,” was sent out to the Hyerled inngulilca on the box, From Bot a ebilt winter evening until 3 of a volder: morning, coaches snt with atttfanhys arms on ils box, and, when the lust guest had gono, hts orderd caine to drive to tha stable. A mudder man never held a rein than the darky on the box; but ameekor ono noyor begged the Madam toretaln hlin, and be explited his oltenge by tho moat perfect obedicuce forever nfter, ———— Cor. MeCiune, of the Philadelphia Tones, lutoly called on the widow of ex-President Poll, in Nashville, and tells what he saw as follows: Although tho storms of four-scoro years have fallen trpon her, Rhe js yet cheorful ag tv lies of SO, and ber atte teas natural und ts treo as tt . could have Deen when it was Tavighod upon the genomtuon that is now forgotten, The brown curls af hor youth nro yet funittosly tmitated on her tnoly-cast forehead, and her turban grown of blueck with the widow's sllver Lining gives her tho appearance of nm xental and woll-preserved, damoot od aummers. Hor step is firm; bor eyes’ are scarcely dliumed by the long lapse of more tian patriarchal yours; and her mumory [yn ubnted, Ste docs not tolerate ina conventional way the many trospuasers upon her time, bat abe greets all with queenly dignity, wud yet with thut wonerous welvomy that makes eyory visitor mark hia vialt ng one of the fudeless niemorles uf bla life. Sho ts gind fo have the stranger even ag her gtivet, aud she/talksuf both tho past an the present with a degree of intoreat, lutellle golive, and freedom fram the comuon wouk- nesses of ago, which charm every class of Hatencrs, SS : Kate Fie.n writes to tho New York Tribune that tho only extant portralt of Goorgo Kulot of which sho is aware fs 4 crayon tn tho posscsaion of tho Blackwoods, at Edinburg; tho work of an artist named Lawrence, to whom Thuckerny onve sut, While in Kdinbury Miss Field visited tho Slgokwouds’ yonorablo books shop, and was duly shown Sr. Dlackwoud's of+ fica up-stulrs, where, over the treplavo, hung this crayon of George Eliot, It {s very Ilke tho reat original, aud the visitor used al) ber powers of pursuasion to obtain a photographia copy; but Mr, Mlackwoort frinty refused, declare ing that Gcorgo Ellot would not allow the crayon to be photographed, nor would she por mit any Ikences of beract? to be mado public. Sho f4 the only woman In tho ocivitizod world (Kate Fiold believes) who bas paver boon phos tographed. We and futuro generations must seo hor ylaage through her linmortal works, a Consup GADp reports an extensive emigras ton from Norway, which bo catimates at 12,000 during 1380, Norweylan emigration conslete eblelly of ugricultural laborers. Last year, whou agencrul dopreasion still prevailed In Norway, while the reports from America told of Increased wages und uctivity intrude aud industry, the omigration frou Norway rege tu about 8,500 pere eons, ‘Tho present your has ulready shown a ros morkublo increase of Norwegians sccking new homes la tho Far West. A similar movemont 1g at tho samo thine going on, 6 A Toten konto, in tho uclrhboring contitries, Swedon and-Den- mark, Up to this dato 105 porsins have emis rated from tho port of Christiania atone, of whont 2,0: were adults, 296 children, and 71 ine fants under Lyenr. For 658 emlyrants, or about nich of tho whole number, tickets wore pro« paid in Amerten. a ‘Tie inhospltahte Arctle regions have been Ronernlly regarded as tho very oppoait of life- bustnining or fertiic in food. Yot a recent travoler [n Stberin asserts that birds go thore to breed, not tn thousands but {a millions, and that for tho reason they tind toro a prodigal ntune daneo of food. Herries of many kinds in ine exhnuatihle quantities, frozen during tho winter, fro readily the momont thu anow bas melted for tho frult-cuting birds; and, for the inscet-worm varieties, mosquitoes in stich swarms that tho birds have but te open their bills to have thom fly down thor thronts, That ts tho addest fenturo of alt. Ono would senteely think of golng to the North Pola to look for mosquitoce. ————— ‘Tue drink known as “gin sling’? was in- vented by Joh Collins, a walter at Limmors Hotel, Condult etreet, London. Jun waa cor- rupted Into gin, and Collins into olius, and fhonce lings. Tho ule Hnoson the libation rant My name Is John Colling, head waiter at Lime mer’s Corner of Conduit street, Hanover square; My eblef occupation is Mling of britpmers for all the young gentiemen frequenters there, Limimer's hud along heyday, and only flickered out within a fow ycars. Tips wore so lberal that thu waiters paid Mr. Collins high premiuing for tholr places, and ho accumulated a band. some competence. re Tien Js considerable feeling manifested in Nebraske overrecent discharges of murderers, on technicalittes, Oud of the papers of tho State says: “tis nota ltule singular that nll those decisions are mado practically to favor tho viclous and tho erininal ‘There is uot one, wa venture to say, among all the deelsidus of our Bitpreme Court, that hus rendered Justice moro certain or moro decisive. These technicalities are always found to favor tho sido of injustice always tond to override equity,—are alwase., found to shield ncknowledged orlminals from. tho just prolabment of tholr erimiuntity. Why’) do they net sometines happen to favor tho other Bide?" ns ——— Mex don’t stand around the corners theso days leaning aguiust lamp-posts, gazing at tho street-sights or gossiping with acquaintances, tulking ‘polities or religion, or dizcussing any othor gople. There ts no toltering of messengers boys, and sehvolboys with thelr shining morning faces do notcrawt toschool. Evorybody is brisic and active, and the police are suved tho troubla tu order lonfers to“ Move ont!” or small crowds off tho sidewnlks, fl ——————— ‘Tr horse-car drivers are entitled to the rympathy of everybody this horribly cod wenther, Tholr sufferings ave oxtrome. Rvory imag of them finishes his trips in a bulf-frozen condition, Standing on the front platform, thoro is no chanco for cxerelse, and it fs nearly impossible to keep tho fcot, fingers, and faco frum freozlug. Thoy enrn tholr wages, if aur men do, a Turns 1s ono happy set of fellows In town, tho contsdenlers, All they do Is to att around thoir stoves, warming tholr shins, talk shout the “small stocks on hand,” and marx up thot prices, They have not a stngle bowel of come passion on tho freezing pubstte, ——— Maxy people hayo talked at random abuut 20 dexrees below zero, their idons being very vigue on that state of the weather. They have now soine notion whut it means and how’ it feels, Morse-car drivers can testify on tho: Jnst point, re Oup Propammarins being dend, Young: Probabilities dil not know enough about weath- cr to prodict that tho present spell was coming; henge everybody was taken unawares; but his pay goes on ail the sumo ns if be know hls busl- ness. ooo Terr Is one class of people who are of, fering wp nto prayers forn apeeily return of mild weather,—the couldenlors, Thoir motto 13,: ~ Let hor buzanrdl" And, the more sho does,: the higher they sorew up the price of coal, aacdiegiaiaeeeens,” “he Wr have not seen u Hghtulng-calculator or an ndhesive-glue man orating to’ a street- crowd for several days. What is tho matter? Aro thoy wfrald of sunstroke 7 ———e et ‘Tur ysual rule is, that an extreme of elther coli! or hut weather Insts threo dys, and then moterates, This ia tho third day low dows in tho zeros, os Nor a policeman yesterday ‘aatd “Movo ont" to anybody, beenuse every one was keoy+ ing binself fn notive clreulation. —$—$—<——__- . Tr Js observed In many enses that In pros. portion ag tho ton of con! becumes heavice tin peice tt grows Hubter in welght. os Trenk was not accase of simattoke re~ ported susterday nt Dr, Du Woll’s Uealth De«s partment, Not ono. PERSONALS, “Ifany man calls you a Har, have yoursel£: hold on tho spot.”—3Ir. Weaver. A member of the Board of Trade who ros cently made nm succoseful’ deal bas pure chnsed a trotting-horse and named him Rovonge,, ‘because, o4 he saya, revonse Je wheat, “ O the snow, the beautiful snow; Seo tho old man to tho bur-room go, Soun bo Js sleepy, hiy speech fs thick, Myrtlo's dear papa fs full os a tle. Mrs, Hemans, * * A Boston paper says. that “another old eltizen hus paased nwa; ‘butt negiccta to statu: whethor {t wae before or nfter thedraw, A truo Journalist would never have allowed thls part of, tho {term to escape, “Tave you are generally full,” remarks ‘person whe sents a pooin, * but hope this may-; got in.” Notwithatauding thoeruel charge of tho ! weiter, her roquest wis granted o¢ soon as the basket could be cmptled, Miss Flora Sharon's wedding wasa brilliant: one, ‘Moro than a thournnd gnosts wore taken, by special traln from San Frineisco to Sonator Sharon's country sent, The bridat rove Is do-! sorived us one * tt tora Queen.” Soverat fariners in Wisconsin, who notlong, ago complied with opportunitics to algn a tom= peruuco pledge, aro Lotug astuntahed by the pre= sontution of promissory wotes promising to pay” cash tnstead of to praction total ubstiuence, Tho Advance, w religous paper of this olty, clultia tat ‘Tih Taainune boa no'meroy for poraond who send pooms to tts ollice, Wo wero not before aware of haying printed any povind written by tho editor of our cstcemed con« temporary, ‘Tho lute Attornoy-General Akerman haa loft a widow and Ave young sons Hying quietly in thet protty littto homo near Cartersville, Qn. Mrs. Akerman 1s, unaided,’ proparing hor boys for collegu. Sho has tnught thom all thoy know, und ono ts reading Cwear and anothor Virgil, During a recent lecture In Providence Mrs, Livermore, In cotnmenting on the Wrongs which , Womon gulfer, remarked that when abo tearnod that her firat-born was a girl sho turned ber faco to tho wall and wept. Not longago, when 3 Chicago man tearnod that bis third-born was & girl ho turnod ils fuce to tho door and kicked. Ho wos already byying acalakin encques and btripod stockings for two othors. 7 Mr, Henry W, Longfellow has lately welt- ton w kindly lottur to Fathor A. J. Ryan, the poot-pricst of the South, in whlch ho says: ‘“* When you call yourself *the Inst and least of thosy who rhyme,’ you remind mo of the graces ful Ines of Catullus to Cleoros ‘Recolvo tha warty thauke of Catullus, tho loast of all pootss 4 wttch the lonat of all poots as you aro the greatest of ulladyocates,’ *Last and least’ oan no more bo applied to you than 'pessimua’ to Catullua,"” A Maryland odltor who racelvod a pleco of tho bridu-exko and a present of 0 basket of towe era Uint bad dono sorylov at the wadding, was 80 Allod with suntimonts of gratitude and thankful+ fess that hoslopped over iu bis" congrutulations” toa recently married friond in this style: “Fate bas garlanded tho shoptet of our friend with one of tho fuireat und swevtcst Uowcers that bloom fu the partorra of beauty, whose frags rance will impregnate with redotence overy Ims pulse of hig gonorous huart, Tho brightest star that radiates the gulaxy of fascinating women shines Upon and iUuuluates bls pathway witty,