Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1881, Page 7

——— VILis CHICAGO ‘SRIBUNE TURSDAY, JULY 5, 1881I—T'WELVE PAGES. TILE SOUTHERN PACIFIC. A Trip Over the Road from San Francisco to Los Angelos. Farming on an Extensive aiid Bolen- stifle Beale—Engipectjag Tri- : ,umphes, 5 nt Tho Mejayo; Vesort and the Los Angoles + *¥alley—A, Remarkable Contrast. Tho Olty of Los Angeles, dnd. Its Profu- “¢° plon of Fruits and Flowers, Bypelal Corrrapondence af ‘The Chteaga Fribunes Los Ancunys, Cal, June 3—-L have Just. traveled ovr the Southern Pacific Railroad from San-Franelsco to Los Angeles, The distance ig 470 infles, and the oxpress-train tle is twanty-two hours, Probably in tho game distance.on no other rond te there found so great uw varicty of scenery and climate, nnd a succession of new henuties Is added to tho viow at.alinost eyery tun, Leave {rug San Franclaco, and slsirting the Bay tn (i Martinez Js passed, tho traf rina through charming suburban villages and closo by thrifty seardens and woll-lnder frutt-orchards, upttl the tin fy made southward from the Central Povific Junction, and the broad plains uf the San Joaquin are reached, Looking frem the ear across this great agricultural sectlon, the rnge of the eye Is bonded only by the distant mountains, while o brow ex- panse of waving grain, covering many that- sant square miles of level Jand, Mes bo- tween, ‘The valley, bounded by the Coast Range and Slarrn, Is about 20 intles tn Jength, and from 20 to 140 iniles in whith, and comprises nearly 0,000,000 neres of the host land Inthe State, together with nearly 1,000,000 acres of tules and ‘snit-marsh lands, than which, when reclalmed, no lands are nore fertile In tho world, ; CALIFORNIA FARMING, Midway betweon tha mountauns runs the railroad, Onelthor alde of the track the . greater Portion of the land fs a sandy loant, easily tilled, tere ant there patches of avoba soll. ara found, and ‘in this black, alluyinl ground thy finest of crops are produced, Nowhere cise is farming prosecuted on such an extensive and sclon- tifa senle, and the quantity of whant and barley produced onch year is somewhat enormous. ‘To tha Eastern tourist, tho Jack of fences, ronds, and homes fa surprising, For miles and miles on each side of the roa nothing but Wheat-lelds are seen, and the play of Nght ane color upon the standing grain exceeds In bonauty the bost tints of tho inost fainous artists, On every ranch is sean forming .machtuery,' of -whora valuo tho Ensteri farmer fs searcely yot aware. Ggige- plows for proparlng the ground, centrifugal sowers for svattoring the seed, combined plows and sowers, ginnt headers for .cuttlng and costly geparators for. threshing, combined headers, tireshers, and sack Ing wagons—theso are the — Imple- ments which ~ have mado largo farming posable on, the San Joaquin, and which have furtifsted wonderful results for the amount of enpital employed. Last year Californin produced nearly 60,000,000 bush- e]s of wheat, or: more’ than’ quy other State save T!inols, and this year the yleld will be ovon greater. ‘Tha xrenter part of this wheat Is shipped to British posts, and the grain fs. so hard and dry that {t {snot injured by bee ing cai nlf way round the globe, NOWERRING TITUSPIIS, After the San Jonguin came the Tulare division of the road, aud: tho ‘country graw mmere mountainous and barren.as the train proceeded southward, About midnight wo Were at Callente, and 330 miles and fifteen hours from our atarting point ‘Tho altitude of this place” Is” only. “1,200. fect, but withhy: 7 +distarce “ot! live milles:‘tha ling * rises. to. the ‘sumndlt! of ‘Tohacnpi Pass, with an altitude of 3,064 feat, and an ayerage ascant of over 100 fovt to the quile, ~ Within this twenty-flvo infles, a8 if to compensate for the smooth and level Nne across the San Joagtutn, are no less than seventeen tunnels, area ‘an gy erogate, length i umans “loop,’? of 7% feet, and also: the where the ling Setually niokes Its headwa: by crossing ‘itself, which 1g consider one of the atest engineering triumphs: of the age. . There ts nathing. elsowhera like the “loop,” untess It be"on the road from Vienna to ‘Trieste, and even there n less diticult.cngincering feat hns Leon accoty- Wished, | Before reaching: this famous point, embankments and excavations follow each sother In quick succession, and the train dunes from peak to peak with as much ogtlity ns.a man on atrapeze, Itcirelesghove *Callente Wke\ a. hawk over .a barnyard; jt runs ‘around curves so sharp that the en- ‘gineer plays tag with the passenger on the {rear car; ]t climbs grades so steep that no power could overt o «disaster should. the coupling break; it burrows itself In tunnels lke n° wondchuck In Sts hole; It thun through cafions; it crogses rayines; it glides along precipices; iL demonstrates fn 1 most jeer Wanner the abstruse theorles of the igher mathematics, The length of ithe “luop ‘is 3.795 feat, the lower track havin; jeu elevation of 2056 rat, and the upper 8,3 feet, making the hight ‘of tha upper track seventy-elght feet freater than the one just below, It Is true that when the train is on ‘the upper track, mathamatically speaking, | Js no furthor ahead than when on the track. ‘below, but It ls necessary that the jineshould cross {tself to reach the Mojave Desert, Just us the good Cathalic must cross himself to Ret Into Heaven. ‘THE MOJAVA DESERT, About 3-o’olook in, the poring, os the train runssouthward, the Bholave, esort Is Teached; and here tho ‘crumbling “skeleton of Natura Iles hopeless of burial and bleach- in. the ein a yon ea: escribo tha utter, desolation of ‘this region. On ayery aide ‘ta'a howling wildorness: of rock ‘and dritting sand; aud the only vegetation is a atuntes fprciea of Sqne brush and the Yueca yalm, ‘This latter tree is the glory of the desert, aud samatines: attains g diainuter of trom two te three feet, and 9 ight of from 'o “te fifty” feet, Tha trunk ter- minates In Stumpy branches, each having at na extrema end a. tuft of daggor-shaped the’ mont teal atk Ryeon foliage usta iu : lu: tanner, ule presenting San appeared’ tin? Winton | nothing nore grotesque can be conceived, Even this product of the desort lins Its uses, 10H tho bark being removed, tha trun utilized in making paper, It is ousted, tute a pulp, and afterwar taken fo ail peat an Jove and wonyfictured, : It is espectally adapted for makis A superlor cluss at bank: note paper, whith. froves ba tirn.and smooth and of ‘grant urablitty, ft the uildst of this devert Is the ony, ation bo- tween the San Joaquin Valley and Los An- goles... The water 1g carrled in pipes from a wpylng: fan nities distant; and the byttor, Brought frost polnts beyond. the outta rom poli yon fain iho station iy the distributing ponte for seys eral mining camps aituatort at considerable Glatances from the railroad, and aecordinuly A nuWuber of stores and gliops are algo in syce Cesatul operation.” ~ 4 te Sy * TOWARDS LOS ANGELES, vais the Mohave plains, the fone, enters the Soledad nd woon the salld mass Of the Bal TS ro rises “abruptly. tn front, | ‘o surpioung this range ‘by q loop, back, or other dnglnesring device was side: ‘Impogslbie—so one of the longest nels tn tea was. constructai,. the sane Having & length of 6,007 feet, The tun. Teaclied fram the north wp a gtad of 216 faos to the miles and tha gin nslons ara Tourteen feet in the elvar at the bottom and aie ea one-l pat foahin oxave a ihe 8 tiumnul i" th! evel Iu Bretulinye-aoutinateed tau Tne piinut 3! re cheated by the express train In pass! As the train: j trot onthe pall, tha Host ets Vatiy dawt Upon i Vision of traveler and © aq, land literally flowing with milk and haney’ ty be- qere Mint. Tf tha: Mohave plains bo chardoter- ey by thalr Want of vegetation, thelr vieloug gana rhs, cir hot climate, the Vul- ey of Log A ss noted for thd mlldiiess F its ciliate, fhe auty of its: sconery, and: dle rent fertility of tts soll, If the one sec- plots be dry, pnt ‘dezolate, and unsuited for pg habitadl lov, fae other f ‘i er tenis ioshen, whure tr cl 3 Wopteal fruity an Mowers pice the greatly {ot profusion, aul where nothing fs wan! WR feet Uis appetite or thn Valley of Promise ditcoeedlog ts | Valley of Death; it is the Inw of componsa- Wed by Nature herself. - wenty miles frum San Fernando, and 470 from San Francleco, the ‘Tuwn of Los Ane goles Is veacted: und the same, with a popt Jaton of about 20,009, ag tops heen the ine. tropolis of Southern Californta. Its at once A titrithue elty, enjoying all the advantages of oreni-cain whentson, and ut the siune thie (tis a ratlrond-centre, | ‘Cha tow ts an ol one, haying been petliail mory than a century ago, [ts aret 13 six simire mites; and the fill name fs Pueblo do ta Retna de loa Atgoles,—"'Fown of tha Queen of tha Angee It bonats already of four dally and Reven weekly newspapers, And hs niaiy. tine posing editicer and blocks of fae buildings. Next fo San Pranelsco tt ls tho most coymo- politan city an the Paciite Const, ond bs as Innny-tongited a4 0 Suditerranusn seaport, ERUITS AND CLONER favat fo marion can be seen alt sorts ol rete a flowers; and therets aneh a wealth of cotor and lixurianes of vegetation as to delight tho heart of ute inost careless trave eer. ‘Phe orange-groves and vineyards are the pride of thelr respective owners, and the eltyls complotely embowered fn thelr follnge, ‘Tio ornnge-trees are found on the pieblle atreels, {0 tho parks, gardens; nid orelirds; and, inthelr season, ure laden with thelr yel- low frult, ‘Tho trees are tall, slratght, aud ayinmatrical, with not much shadows and the ground underneath fg ay free from weeds or grass os a welleweeded onton-bed. An orchard of atx acres and 500 trees prodnced 26,000 In esingle season, and this from. trees only nv few years’ old, The orunge Is the trno “apple of gold of the Callfornia fpruens andthe who Is the possessor, of thrifty orchurid Is assured of © splendid competence for life, The vineyards of Los Anretes nro scarcely less famous than the orchards, and somes times a hitndred varieties of gripes tay bo fountl In single tleld. Last year the average. net prolit ot every nere of vineyard in thy county was $80, nid in cartaln places the protit was five susgrent. ‘The wines of 08 Angeles ara fast becoming famous for thelr excellence of bottquet ant Helleney of flavor, nnd the future will shdw better roturns than those, which finve in the = pual been attained, Besldes tho ornange-trees and yines there eau be secon, throughout tho city the huge palin tree, the beanti¢nl Itallun and Monterey ey- pres. tho banana, pepper, live-onk, encne pts, Jemon, Hino, te, romexgranate, and other trees, growing In tho greatest profi ston, and the Whole forming a pleture of ar rienliural Tuxtrianes not equaled on te shores of tho Mediterranean. — os Angeles ig yet In the infancy of its growth, publle tir provements nye not yet far advanced, and the popniation Is comparatively smalls but, bo- ing the key to Southern California and Art zona, having both railway and steamship connection with the Enstern States and Rue rope, the city will somutime be na renowned for tho woalth and number of its Intiabitants ng it Js now renowned for the fertility of its soll and the superiority of its slat Ww. wR We —____— A CONFIDENCE QUEEN, Bortha Woyman and Hor Victiius. New York Lzpress, Berthh Woyman, a young and beautiful worn, wis On trial in tho County Court at Staten Island yesterday on a chargo of stogiing 4 wateh from hor boarding mistress, Pauttuc Seblanrbaum, of Clifton, Never was tho truth of tho old adage, “Truth 1s stranger than tlo- tion," batter excmpltiticd than in the career af this extraortinary womun, For years sho haa fyod in regal splendor in Now York hotels, sur rounded by tuxutios.and attuned by scoretaries and liveried lnvkeys. She occupted apartments at diiferent tlmes fu tho Mt. Denis Hotel, the Gileey Houso, tho Now York Lotel, tho Grand Hotel, and the Motet Brunswick, Twoyears ago hor secretary wns Louls La Forge, of Nu, 6 ‘West Bloventh street, of Iter piau was to panes borsalf of fora mitiion- alre, and theu to borrow monvy on tho strongth of hor prospects, In July lust sho mado the uo- quatutancy of a gentleman named Rotty, to whoni aho represonted sho was entitlod to. $20, 000,000, and she then made him tho avant of her estutes nud hor man of business.” Mr. Botty soon wscurtained that ho hud been swindled, but ‘ho was moro fortunate than athors of tho tulr Dertha’s victims, for ho sued hor and recovered $5,000, monoy loaned and services rendered. uother of tho victims was ono of tho tirm of Hates, Reed & Cooley, of Broadway, who ;Bulfgred to the tunc of $5,000. Mra, Munder, of ‘Seventh stroot, was victimized to a like extont, ‘Bome time ago Choriles Urandt,n bighly respeot- ablo man, but too good-hvarted for tis own In- Lercata, rosidad in Oliver stract in this city. Mr, Branddt knew tho woman whoh ebe was marricd tober first husband, Fritz Kurkow, in Milwau- keo, Wis. Bertha sent for bim, aud told bim of herulloyed yood fortuno. ‘Tha sploudor of hor surrguudinge was to Mr. Braudt s convinaln: proof of the truthof heratatements. MMe. Brand waited on hor ono day, und she told him sho had somothing to tell him, Sho wasto be In full pos- seasion of .hor property in a fow days, and in reuoyn{ton of tholr old acquaintance abe would appoint him her agent ata salary of $5,000 0 year, The dotulla wera about to be arranged whona Hverid feotminn announced "J.J. Astor,” * L can't sce him; Lam indisposed,” remarked tho folr Bortha, @ Next.duy Mr. Brandt was thera tho namo of Robert Honner" was announced. & “ Toll bim to catl at U o'clock," euld Bortha, Mr, Brandt was not at all avtonished. He bad hoard this woman speak so cavuilerly of Van- deebiit and the restoft the mouvyed magnatus that Ube ooh hia estimation be impossible to hur, and besoon became a pHable toot for hor muachiuations. The day that Mr, Bonner was ap Fozed to cull"nt 0 o'clodk the fulventuress told Hrandt that sho had some ditiioulty with her law- yer, to whom sha bad promised Ww per cent on the suit for the recovery of hor Ropers “Now that it fg coming to a siiccessful issuc, ho wants $5 por cont," moaned the lady, with an alr of injui lanocence, =I want $I Im- mediately, and will give you 2 draft at Kountz Hrothora’ on Dlatz, thubrower, of Milwaukeo, it you can advance mo wo Mr i it ‘waa only too bappy to oblige ble fyture om- foyer, and thoy procecded ta the banking- jouge Whore she drow tho draft, Then they soparated, ba Promising to got tho $1,000, In a Bhort time after bo bud goue she rolntered tho tablishingnt of Kountzo Bros. with a man who resomblod ‘Brandt and withdrew tho draft, The bank Oiicials thougut bor companion was Brandt, aud they compiled with the fiacovered how be had hoou, swindled he vowed venyeaope against -| Bertha, Ho jovestigated horjearilor cureer, and vcertoinell that eho had been. bora. in Cabliu, Posen, Prusala. ‘Her maiden name waa Bertha Sublessinger, - Sha was divorced from bor flrat husband, Korkow, and her right to the naine of Jigyiwan sunnot bo ascertained. - ‘Vhrougkonoot bor maids, a Miss Schwurty, of Desbrosses streot, tha photographs of the holross were procured, Sho bad ted to Canada, and on ber return, @ short time uftor, was arrested by two of Pinker ton‘s detectives, By them she wus turned over to the Btaten Isiand authoritics, whore sho was “ wanted" for the larcopy of a watch. Dortha’a ‘cofousa ly that sha isu wronged and injined Womun. Biieo her urrest sho hus Loco a Prisonor only by natne. Sho occuples a suite of upartincnts in the Court-Houso; tas beun ate tondod' by a maid; and Is treated to currlage ridea overy day. e bag bec at muny ox- oursions, and sponds much of her time inate tendunco gt goqnes of festivity in tho olty. ‘Te such yn extent is thig curried that sho is called “ The Pi by the realdonts of tho Villars of Richmon in conversation sie fa most plouslate and graceful, and prescnta an alc of Injured Innocence thut Induces many eredulous persons to vollove she is really a wronged aod porsocuted wow! - es The Dedo! elling that Juloy Lefebvre 1s Makiu@ for Mr. Vandere Dinsts Now. Houye. . iQ Paris correspondent of, 4 Vhiladelphia paper saya * Jules Lofobvra ty one of tho mora of | the wetists, hie rautton! Fronch tudio “belug ilturaily an’ atoltor, 1g-FOOR, nos © veg ovar iu the old uti ‘gQw roplavad in the utfoctlonsat mw Frouoh ae by the uowor churms an: Sbouding ap! lendorg of the wideaventicy arouud loncagu. {hip eomatb(n of 4 ollub $0 Mount to the vast, alry, woll-lighted which is now ocoupied by" vision of pxcoudiny Doauty, the colling ordered by Mr. Vi for dtrq. Vandorbilt’s bodchamber, ‘I 8 tae: Of ‘the tArabiaiu Nixhts,'—a sleepe fog apariens | with = such. 9 drean ot. yarue, bpotlg, lavolin » cugbrined overhead ‘to ‘greet the owner. moment of hisor hor awakauing, quisitly ideal talent of Jutoy Letel roduced guy thing more charming, ream of & post who bas guukto ‘dgop ugdor tho stars of Juno with un invocation to the joddess of Night upon bis lipg, Bho desig ropresunty tho dawn, but With a graceful origte. tia Seeiva/ot aurora, but tas doagenuro a tee 0 B 0 i The, Ueuutcoue id night. Pursonitied ‘ tug slater of Apollo, Night, with the creyceut we de ican by wo. moo Upon ber OR RRR ory cat 5 ry ats Vato at lu and yracoful goddess Uns Just luygvbed a shutt uf mounbuams iuqulnat rer fae ds low it Py thy blug is group cccuples tbe while benegth 0 on tl e-Husbed sulsty, ad oxquisit “graup represwatlu) A bowuti{ul slumbering ny wpb, bur fale forui drepedin a (eansparou! robe of puleat Ilay, Heats upborns ay her. airy couch. while ne Wbyed ult neation faut rte aber de, and, another with outs bi iy sing beads over tonwakeu ber witha kiss, At tho lower sight-band corner of the composition tho risluz vapora give a glimpse of the sun just showing Riarimaboveatrauquilsea. ‘This is the ouly Ura, vestige of prosato reality in the pleture, All tho rest eines, not to atrth, but to Drestintand, —to,the vagne and diving realm of tho Iden), a GAMBETTA'S DEFEAT, Popatar Speculation Wegarding Us Vuturo CourseA Vintt to Amerion Propoved=Probabillty, that the New ‘hambers WI Bo Bexs averatlo to Tins than Aro ho Mroxent, Corresponitence New York Tritnines Pata, duno 1%,—The future of Guinbetta ts now the almost universal topic of conversation and gunoral speciation. What will hy do? What aw departute will ho take? Mov will he avenge himeclf on tho flysée and on Jules Bluon? Who has profited by all Game hottw’s mistakes aud by tha Intamporito: veal of bis courtlors and ctlenta do use the worl iu tho old iomuatt: aansey to dertroy in a week tho position which it has taken threo youre of peraovering effort to bultd uf? Will Gambete Us antletpute desertion and neginot by breakiog with the Hntterersand tiine-servers who througert hile nnte-schamber, and muck more than Jules Biron bave been the cause of bly detent In the Senate-on tha Herutin de Liste, and In tho Chainber en the proposal uf 31, Burduux for an {tnmedinte dissolutiun? Just now, Ganihettu’s strntogy ts to fold hia arms und walt for a politl- eat breeze that may Mil his salts again, He is without n pollcy, becausu over singo ho bas let tho Ronapurtists gut in upon him he bas been liv Inyjon tomporary expedionts. E Clomencea vecupics the Itadlent platform and intends to keop tt, but not tu tho excitston of Gainbetta IC tha Intter will follow tn his wake. Tho Deputy of Stontmartra ts going on the Reform und the Ewancipation tleket to atuaip tho Vatley of the Ruane and through Dau-, phiny. He bolug that an Auyoan atable remains ta be cleansad, und that atiministrative rofurat aud eninnelpition from barbarous press and othor laws which fetter Indlyldunl Mberty should boatthohend of the Republ(ean program for the renoral olections, Clemienveat’s turco Iles in his consistency and bls oratorical capacity. No paralidl ean bo instituted ‘between hin and Gambetta, thoy are 60 dlxshinilirs but Clemen- ceau ia now the only man of Gambetta's intel- Iectunl stature in the politicul arenu, Grévy and bls friends, Inu also told, will not stand fatho way of the iteforms for which Clom- ceau pronounces, untoss be suifors tho Rod party to yet bold of him. whith ff not probable. ‘Tho Deputy or Montmartre fs niman of awift mind, Ideas start up in his bruin spontaneously ug wild flowers ina Held In spring, But bis {n= ayinntion und bis active cerebravion nro kept in chock by tho pruning-bogt of seienco anda rousoy of oxtraordinacy powor, It ie a mistake td look upon bi as 1 rovorutionist. Itc shrinks from revolution ng a humane and skillful aurreon shrivke from amputating o dis- easel knee while with patieice and carufurtreatment might bo cured, Hut ho bus strong faith Iu {dons and In principles. Those, ho said tome 2 fey evenings agg, wre in tho Jong run ns potent in ruliog tha world’s affairs #4 the moon and sin are i woverning the netiun of tho wiide and waves. Clemencoun thinks that Gambetta muat adopt big reform and cman: eipationist: progeam and take oftve upon It iftur the nuxt guneral eleotions. He doves not Npproband that the tame party will bo weukoned or serlously divided by the vote of tho Sennte and that of tha Chamber, Likrpres, a Gambettist paper. which wos ‘sturted simtuitancously wii Le Henrle 1V, A Bloile Fronenise, L'independent, L’ Gntte Nae tionale, aud L'Opution, to bujp on tho poiley of whieh tho Burdoux measure was to have bean a inuinapring, gives aplece of extraordinary ud- vies toGambettn, Itiste go and spend a year or two in the Uniteil States, Untartunitaly Barab Bernhardt’s American tour, and tho ovii- tong she was givon when makbur It, ne too re- cont for tho Presidont of tho Chnawter tocross the Atlautic. Manifestations of publie un thusitsin and curiosity with whieh he might be krevtad would not cssentiilly ditter from: those which tho presence of Bille. Karah Rerntiarat oveked, the Ainerican people would allow Gumbettn to travel about the tates unnotleed sive by tholr furcinost Uiteraté and political nate Diltties, the advice of L'Kapresa inight uo fol- Jowed with advantage. Bue it would bo vain, so long ia the great orator, now undor o cloud, Js not oumplotely * used up,” to expect Amorion, would not be tremendausly oxelted by bis nd- vent in the States. J brpress Dour witness to tho astonishment or damberte shen he saw tha majority desort finn in the Chamber, Mo hud in avery way identiticd himself with the Hurdoux prapoaxt for an minediuty dissolution, | L'erpress, whioh, remember, colors no less 1 deucoe of Ine Timtaoy, with the Petit Bourbon than tho Ieptl~ lque eave, aBcribes this cheok te the nuisy: demonstrations made In Gambottn’s favor by tha hnpertalist pupulation of the Jot; to tho ,Jealousy "of were Contre mudiocrities; and tho . ficklenosa of . the: ua- oual’ gtaracter. = Without Houpalelig of the realization of his polltie schome, Gambetta, this oraun of his tella us, well undur- Stands that It Is indeiinitly adjourned. Tho mn. Jority which tho next zonural olections will send tothe Chamber will bo less Opportunist than tho one which has kept bim in tho Sponker's chair alc Uh dency of tho Republly. Forty mombers of tha pale will probably bo olininated. Tho .o- ublican party will coutuin wore Iudicals of ne Clomoncean ghade,more Grovyists and mora Loft Contrists than the existing House of Depu- tles. Grovy ismore than over doteriniied not to. ask Gambetta to hoad n Ninistry unless ho is Imposed upon him by tho ‘majority in tho Chauwber, which it ia by no mous cortain he will be ablg to load, - The majority in this Cham- ber hay boon his humble and obvdiont servant, Instend of joining in sterile disputes fi oltice, tho Express opines that Gambetta would do bet. tor wero ho to puss a fow yeursin the study of American domoorgcy. He would, that Juuroal ig antisticd, return calm, cooled, and imnster of himpelf, and yot possessing cnouyh of Southern beat to cause the soulauf Prench Itepublicans to vibrate. Duriog bis absence the nation would joso all tyato for tho standstilt polloy of the Cuntre and’ tho Moderate Loft. It would wieasure tha abysa which soparatesa constitu- onul foonareny froma ropublican democracy without @ President, The reviston plutforit would be ripe for application against tho return to Lurupe of Gambetta, who would vome back with a glenrer {dea of the neccssitics of 2 yrout republican ‘State, and would be css disposed thin he bag beun to give way to thé prejudices and illusions of the nilddlo clay and the tinun- clal gonfraternity. He would have soon a great country without Q. permanant aray, churches syorrwiere living in honorable fudependones of tho State, citizens freg to meat and to assuciato, and poivace inciativg unfatterad. Tcun with dificulty realize the collpse which the Gambettist star lanndergoing. Courtlers tly from him,’ Goneraly who were go indecent); forward to pay him bomaye siluk out of bis way. Tho AIX. Stecle, which was foremost among his adulutors, bas turned round toward he lyase, and Rune ond Reinaeh, whose arras ant leadors ii the Voltaire and the Republique "raneaixe surveil as a fover to dulce Injon when ho wanted to rouse up tha Sonate against the Sorutin de Liste, are now mute us tnlce, . dont, of La France, has Impu- dently doclared hituself tho onomy of tho Prosi- dentot the Chamber, and roturnod to tho Elyséu, No gavo the stat of that Journal, which M. Emile do Gtrardin formod aaven yoara uuu, no gellar betweon resignation and attavking tho a nualahed reivune, Wwhosp bouts he wassolicitans . to black last winter.” Charlos Tauront, sou of Marlo Laurent, thy tragic notress, bag ras signed, and hh hlin threo: sub-editors. niyo throe is Honrl de Lapounnerate, the talonted dramatio critic, Ho did not neale tate’ a woment. - Lapommerale is a no los charsiing looturer than writer, Ho bud cons ocivod a warm afvotlon for Gambetta, who is ong Of the most: cordial-wannored und seduct-. ive of butnan beloga, “ Lupomuorate $8 & wan. of tne sensibilities, and lot by him. Ho was honored by hiv friendship whew ambotts was wt the Potit Hourbon, and ro- fused tn his eclipae to tly from bin with the bavo Sih A cae © sea x HL Haron Alpuoasa itottachitd the night Uotora Inst apologizod to og yroup of old Orlyantyt Srleuds for baving hoggod tha Marquis du Lan to unable bia to meet Gambotta at a sinall and friendly dinver, Suid Baron Alphonso; “1 thought be was virtually ninster of the Hepub- No, and it ways & role of our trim to id the key of tha thor after invited the Erpporar on one ocenslon before big Majesty's gua q pul rot which ‘aa peer auuae'te or Vive Empereur!? fall Miuaclf bo charued ——— ‘he Profayg Frog—A NStaytliug Story fram tho baud or steady Habyts | rf lies Atlartford gontioman who owns a fares In Windbumy near thy renownod old frog-pond, tulle of a flabtug, snuldent in bid experience ut the historic fond 44199, Sime wu, wi who are fawilian with the rue and thore isi frog tones may b nt He saveze was baviug exvellont juuk tabling, pulling out one big perch after another, uncil 4 ane Old bwlifrog—a Bors of Datruclan patriarch CHING UD Que Of the water, touk up @ position on w rock ofa, feet away and bi duu} and qnountul vrouking, lily was il i repent yy othurg— for Dae Dyor” ond, “ Ftericia ton tuve tholr Huoul deacundauts eeu ete a at ed org Ww r ths pond. From. thie ‘inva the tabs at not ulrey HOt uno ono was booked, Thy angler trin! oll the ald buago profundos; and Upon ky Wenge woae oblige Wn true Wook to balty aud the fishermen overtbraw, Bub if bin by an, in Hoek ad wnat in tha’ iruyeas thy. Et: My up in tha alr f * Reile oainettown ‘ahd howily wert, Che cot. As water, apparently vory inuch ustonlsbed wt bis wyrial tip od auddun fall with such a whack, bo ranted out with almost bump Glgtinotuces, oy deeper Foun ay of tho bulls of Bashan. the ong axclamal “Good Gad” and then digappearod, Aftor this occurrence the frog aprouiniia ap d,and the Saherman cup. tloued apglpy wi {yrmer gouk luck. 1 uloction of Grévy to tho Tresi-. The Recent Republican State Con- vention—A Notable Gath- ering. Sketches of tho Careers of the Vartons Candidutes—A Good Ticket. Bpectal Correspondence of The UAleazo Tribune. Des Mons, In, July L—The twenty: ninth Republican State Convention will go on tho records as the largoat and moat nota- Ig in the istory of the party, No such eon test was aver waned: before-tn a Gubernato-, rial nomination. Jt was nota contest over two greatinen, but a strife between Joyal and firm friends af two very popular men It wos not an Issue between principles or tenets, for both were Stalwart Republicans, It was not n question of enpubliity or fithess; it was ‘slinply a matter of numerical supe rlorlty of persunal friends, THE GUBENNATORIAL CONTEST, + Friends of Mr, Marian aod Frank Camp- bell, taking advantage of the nearly equal division butween these two, souglit to became the balunce of power, and by persistent per- suvormies compel r dendlock tut subsequent. surrender, Agninst this combination were arrayed the Litrrabea and Sherman forces, led by tho most xagnciuus and shrewdest men in th® party; while at the same time eneh were guarding thelr own lines and seek ing by the imost potent strategy to weaken the other. ‘Ihe result of the batluting In the convention nmst be gratifying at lenst to tha defented candidate, A differenca of one vote ty not a very bad defent for any infin. ‘That was tha’ test ‘vote, It was otly a qiestion of whore Hurlan’s friends would gu after bo- coming convinced that they cvitld not break the two’ stulwert lines, ‘They made the break for the Shermun camp. THE LIBUTENANT-GOVENNONSIUD, ‘The Gubornatorial contest overshadowed all the other ofices, ‘Chey were scarcely thought of. ‘The candidates were left to se- etiro strength ns best they could, 1t was gonerally conceded that Senator Young, up to the assoinbilng of the Convention, had the lead. He formed no combinations, relying on Nils personal popularity among Senn tors, "iho were largely present. But Manning, ‘with on keen - oye to tho main chance, combined with the sup- Rortus of Akers, of Linn, and won, Ted Young combined with the friends of Judge Dullg, he would have undoubtedly won, and Judge Adaus woul hava been left ont, There was great surprise at the strength of Judge Dutie as disclosed In the Informal ballot, whieh was 020 votes. ‘the yietory wen may be aet down ag that of the young men, Mr, Sherman §345, Mir Manning 35, and Mr. Akers 40, Now that tho tleket Js made up, there will o increasing Interest to know whut sort of neh compose It, BUREN T, SUEIMTAN. Mr, Sherman was first introduced to this mundane sphere at Phelps, Ontario Cotnty, New York, May 2, 1836, and) was the third gonot Phineas Ja and Hveline Sherman, ‘They. were in iediocre clrenmstanees, but appreelated the value of editeation, and. the worth of futegrity of character and indus: trious habits, Such fuellities as une pubile hools of thelr residence uforded were iven their children, Subsequently Mr. herman obtained a inore complete Knowl- eda of the Huglish branches at the schools at Bhaira. Me was tnable w secure a cole loglatecourse, While at Eliutra he anpren- teed Winsuif to the watchumker’s trade, nt which wus cinployed until 1855, (iis parents, he came to ‘Tama County, Towa, wud located an Government. ‘land, sixteen miles from Waterloo, the nearest post-offlee, while the nearest wlll was infles away. ‘hore ha oxsisted. his father and spent his lelsure hours In reading uw, exeept fora short thie when he was the bookkeeper for a business- adinitted to the bar of thu¢-county. and soon. jam: Sinyth and de CG. 'Tryor, The sirm ses cured & large amt remunerative’ practice, Whon the President called {for help to xave tho Union, Mr, Sherman tn, 180l enlisted. in Company , ‘Thirteenth Towa dufantry, and went tu the front as Second Sergeant, On that momorable Sunday, April 6, 1863, at Shiloh, during the turriile | assault upon: Gen. Prentiss’ diyiston, ho | was wounded, 0 Minle ball passing through, his thigh nearthe hipJoint, making a terrible wound, lle lay on the ground on his baci Until tho -battle of the duy closed, when ho was picked up by retreating comrades, who supposed him dead, aud carri tho rivor, Soyeral hours Juter he was put. on the hos- ital boat, and-taken to Calro, iis wound not ing eared for by surgeuns until Friday, “A surgeon onthe river bank decided to anpu- tate his leg, which Sherman refused te allow, under threat to shoot the doctor If he at- tempted It, Sherman was reported as dend, and was so considered until, Tong afterward, ho was ablo to correct the report. While in the hospital ho was promoted to be Captain, and, when'able ta move about on eruteh: he returned to his companys but his wound broke oub anow, ancl april 17, 1863, he was compelled to resign; when he ‘came home. Jlo was soon after elected County Judge of Benton County, was redlected tn 1885, and In 18) reaigzned to take tho promotion to Clork of tho District Court; to which he was three times revlected, and which oftice he re- slanad in 1874 to accunt the promotion to tha olive of. State Auditor, whiels offlew he tiled three succeasive ternis,—an honor not ton- ferred on any othor mun Jn the party in. this State, Politically he Is, and ever fins been, fo Republican of the Jowa: type Ne ls liberal in sontiment. yet huaworving fn his conception of right aud justice, Tis long experience as a public olllcer, lily prac: tleal goad sonse, honesty of per ogo, anit I= tearlity of ‘ehuractor, woll ft him for tho place he will be vlected in October to Ay and, mark the. Prediction, he. will yun thou. anods ahead of the ticket: for, personally, ho is universally populas. Ilsatrongast Stlends ure those who livo In his own nelghborhood, OQ, Ihe MANNING,” - the gallant and brilllant young school- teacher, lawyer, bauker, sud’ editor, who is candidate for Ligutenunt-Governor, fy u Hoo- sier production, Jio was burn at Abluudon, Wayne County, Ind, May-18, 147, When years of age ‘hig parents:entue to lowa, loenting at Adel, In Dallas. County, where iT nec until 1858, whon they want to County, where Manning attended tern Colluge, subsoquently golng to Coruell Unlvorsity, In Ibu he went to Juf-. fersgu County, taught achuol one year, and read law th tho ofica of Mead & Russell, woe fii 1863 Waa adnilttedt to the bar of the Dls- trlot Court, when he wenl.to Carroll, where ho hus slice resided... He wag elocted County ‘Treasurer for one term, and In 1875 was seul to the Lealsinture, and iy in 1877, when he. was - appolnted Charman Tlouss = Committea on. 8. made a most, recov, and surprised =o hifs ust sangujne frlénds, ° To will present n somowhat youth: ful appearance ag preslatng oft grave and yen¢rmbla Suiitors; but h eaual tho gaenalon. the pariod ol S57 Fes ror ike fram. 1870 te 1878. he dl orfed hhusel€ as saltors ettiots vas miata unas uidge tg we as thrusts of hia Keon lance, pega * AUSTIN ADAMS, Judge Adams hay, by. one term on the si Wane tgabry nate eds Y Ww in his boule” gee Co Peta Comparatively Hitio vs KnGwit of ta ca OmMparitively ttle was KyGw o cally digate Kor Supertutencdany of Publis Inatruc- the indurscnuent ot Hig lame deter ie wimost eatiidphes. in Ws: Atneas. alls sulection was’ the rusult of'o hu oF thong aut> wor palittcal conve! which no than can foresdy with ta) Bivel) Ups ali hope of. success, bout va ontar an di for home, when a triend (iformed nin that the Ughtning bad atrick blip. Fle cared ubout, handed the porter lila gtip-syck. reee| vet the Congeatiiptions | fe friends for soveral hours. ¥ 6 le bortt at Now Athans, ant abe o gist old, ¢ with paren' to Town, locating on the wild-praltta* nar where Aitlersburig now ls ‘Three youry bo asslyted da lmprov- Jug. nud tuking & new-farm, When lia father embarked tn Merchandising; John the store, 1! = folng into ‘yo yuars later his futher failed, and the hoy wis forced te tly npon hlunse! Uo bed formed a purpusy: lo wecure wn edu cution, Insummer he broke peoirie, of did other faru-work, studying "43 -he liad time, and tn winter taught achiool; until 1861) when jo enlisted in Company G, Beventeenth Lowa firm fi a neighboring tow. 1 1859 he was. after beeame the partner ‘tf the Ion. Will- Anfautry, and served with that regiment watit the fall of Atkin Ha paeied through the terrible Mlaughter at fuka, Jnekson, Champion's Til, Fort Hh and Ghattnnoa ia, Seb never recelved a serateh. At the clase pf the War he came home, entered cole Jegeat Mt. Vernonnand), ait ls pense by: wnantiad labor, warked fis way through, gradiutlhys with honor fn 1870, when he was ort Lenape of the pubic schon! at Vine vite pines he filled so sneeesafully ‘eur later Waterloo offered hil att dn S500 salary to trke the same place in her publica schools, He accepted, atid sue geuuentty Cedar Raphds: offered him aw still further Inereass of salary as Superintendd- ent of her schools, He neeepted, and has nine Mull the position with marked whilitys ‘The whole Heket is a good one, and wis placed Ont stinel pintforn, wok only du one spots It fs not quite so stron in the Gariely plank ns the majority of the, party wouldhave iniite It. HAWKEYE, “YE OLD ENGLISH FAYRE." A Motley ‘CKbreesaye? Carnival in Loudon Corrapmdence Cinctunatl Cummeretat. Loxpox, Jtine 11,—Vast numbers of peo- ple have been going to sce fine Jadies in their fun inthe Royal Albert Hall For three days this grent butlding, fashioned after the Xowwan structure, wherein Christlins wero thrown to tho Huns, has wituesseal oa great innny Christiwns among: the Ionesses.: | Lt Was, however, only thelr money, not thelr Ife, the pretty cats Wanted ax they pounced tupon each new comer, And the money they wore pretty sure to get. ‘Tho profesoiunal Duatities were consplenously absent at this “fayre.” Ln the great bazwur previously held inthe same hall, the said beauties were the waln wliraction, and cach stoud before some stil, whose trifes they raised in price several hundred per cent But on this ace custon it looks as if there had been elther a strike among the professional ur a rebellion among the unprofessional beauties, Or it may have been concluded by the promoters of the “ fayre? thot there I vothlug su sure to draw the erent middle classes uy title “Nearly all the ladles keeping stall on this ce- casion were titled, or elso members of the nalstoer It may linve been, fadeed, that the tntltted beauties were found to hesttite About parudiag thempelves in fanuy dresses an brond daylight, Squeamishuess fn siel natters Is nata charueteristle of the ari tocracy, ‘The pretty dames—and very preity anny of them were—dashed about fn thelr quant’ and elaborate costumes as if they had found thelr natural habitat, the period from whieh their Utles cames and ns for what tha mnore prudish sniddie clusses might thinde they evidently didn't care a pin. On entering, we found ourselves in the centre of avold English villaze, made tip of Nght boards and paint. But it was a village of tins, at feast each booth had over it a sien In the styly of auclent village tims. ‘The signs were, “Ye Uae wid Lyon and Unikorne, "Ye Mal ‘ * Ye Robin fade” “Ye Kieu Anchor” “Ye Olde Craw Blerce,” * Yo Rose and ‘Th! woode Oak,” “Yo Sylver St. Gvorge and ye Dragon,” tha signbourds being: (choral. There was “ye olde Village Voll,” where, on payment of a shilling, two pretty dames fn costume let down a buekgt Which brought up a present for one, of about fourpence value, At a "Wheel of Fortune” two beanital ladies. for two shillings, revolved you wut a present of six- peneo value, Investing, however, by thelr ae dacity ond siniiing assurances with an bin porkance that dit not appear on the surface, Coming near “ye Bower,” a ‘bevy of lower: pis start out, enger to pin a rose in your jotion-hole for the moderate reward Of five verb liy,—aor, Lshunld say, "—astonished me with the Do-you not belleve inthe Darwin theory?” Lavas just replying with eaution that the theory of ntavistie differentiation a3 represented: {in Smibrsonle-Switelt ent short my oxposition by hulding up a wooden toy of a tree nude af shavings and dotted with red balls, fu front o€ it was a moukey eat- Ing one of the red bails, © ‘Thaty’ sald she, “is Adan, ovr oriziial progenitor, entine the ‘forbhiden fruit??? “But whereis Eve 2” “Oh, she lings got enough of it and. gone away.” And thetompture” “Oh, that’s me!” There was sometines such a pressure put on persons to buy that they. became desperate and lut to escape us they vould. One love iy, Wwyisome lady was .trylng. make Kentluinun © buy“ a ton, He turned mul twisted, but she would not release hin, © atood near, mther nmused.at his distress. Perhaps he pbserved this,-tor he suddenly uric Unk stle,?? Shictde, turned, 1 he covlest way sald, pulntia, to mies “My friund, here ty collector o! nuns! Wi harantisn shy rushed of me, and the hnpudont fellow. got of. [was not his friends Infact, at thaé moment I beenme his eneuy, Sometimes the sharpwitted sules- wonen were sold. A seomlugly rustic, but really deep fellow enme up to a stall and sald: “Do you think you have any pretty thiag here that Linight buy for my witee— IVs ber birthday.” ‘Cho mpsqueraders sprang forward, 1a was instantly the: center: of a. dozen busutles and two dozen fair arlstacratioa arms, rosente throu, lace, — profferlayg Venetian glass beads, bouquet-holders, fins, Inc handKereblets, curd enses, ete, ‘The tet- low shook hls head and passed on. Word wastelegraphed to the next booth that a great buyer of birthday presents coming, and all the Indies thereof swarmed around the adveuturer. - Ho inspected thelr tollets closely, then preset} on, All tha booths wore nothtieds wll the beauties surrounded him; he got a good view of ye aristocracy, and In the en bought o shilling elgarlolder, 1 presently suw lili Ini corner writing notes hi reporter's bouk, It was Jenkins. 1 vied Jenkins,” He was, ‘indeed, somewhat flushed after the agroenble guanllet he liad vin in the name of his inaginary wife, a wiped the perspiration front his thoughtful brie bu jy ietony sut beside hin bi hy atiet retreat, ‘ z ats tast of.tha costumes were Elfdbethan, though there wero some of old French style, ‘There was a gay booth, whare batter, Sete, ink, and so forth were soll by dalty-uiulds in Elizabethan peasant holiday attire, ‘The Countess of Searboraugh was in silver-aray Puritan peasant dross, with wustin cap, hor’ agsistants in mitch the same make-up, They displayed, however, & good deal more wanton froflesomenoss. fn thelr lowers and frults thing is usually assoclutad with the Puritan character, on tho first day of the roy presided at the Aluy-pole, wht! ich the Cromwelllan diviyes denounced a8 2 Pagan affair, July aArehibald Cawpboll wiih her party wero borne to the hall frou Lowther Lodge Ju sedans, by met ty antique casting ‘The sedan los. Deon -avalved jnto the Lan goin cab, and the cabbees logked with amaze- menton this display of tholy vehicular an cestry.- ‘Thera was wbout these ladles a goad deal of what the disgusted old Purl- tan Stubbs callect © this liqult saatter which thoy call starch,” and, as the sae authority remarked, “the davil hath learned: them te wash and (holr ruff." Rats wore the order of the day, Thy Countess of Cadoxan and Lady Constance Howard bad small edits; Lady Carvagh had alarxe rut. ‘They, also atfected pretty . lace-trimucd aprons, and queer hats with fouttiers Somo of tho hats were estinguishar-shaped. ‘There were little costumed girls dispersed about the hall, with trays filled with tritles, ‘Thora were boys dressed as pages, engaged tn the sae bust neas, Some of them ycaterday boldly claimed that thelr establishments had been “specially atroulzed. by the Prince and Princess of Wates," On’ a platfory Sucgasslve reluys of actors In costumes, yjostly volvutesn, were beggloy, the crowd to. go Into. th thenti whyra “everybody hug 9 front seat.” ‘The Actrasses stood around Wem ty the allurin atylo of the oll Richardson Show, Drumatio er(yrmunces during the * Vayre”? wore give if at ter and Mulstryeso Bancroft,” Matstreasa John Wood,” * Mulster ‘Lygle," “ Mulstor Corny. Gralng,” aud others; and thera woro ol! ballad congorts (tn which aus clout haspalchords wero yacd. ‘The chlet didicuiticn fa gattlig ui “Rayre? cone slated In te Au old ipacitneryy Ine oS struments ete.” Aud it ig, sald Lon ny ssourchied through before aeduy could be fond. [ely probable ting these anclent thingg have miady thule lnstappoarance fu the world. Ay it ls, the was yory mole. ley, 4 t Was ainixture of puriods which wauld bave distressed ony archislogical vurtlgt. Several usta combined bity o} or four didoyent centuries (nh thelr cogtynjes, "Baydalisin Puritans sometinies ant sweetly togatiior ypan . these prep dujugs, Whose greut-grandinotiers wan! huive turned pate had they Kpown that 1 descendants of tholrs woulsl go have bilnghy the uniforms of great yurtles, ‘The old. pase tles arg dem; tho ruses of York and Lapease tex bo longer stab thorns Into each other, Oi builgos, unitorg, syyiboly, which onco Indleapet the fouds of dynasties wnpltes, NaW Brown Mcaningless bay revised the elunpsos of the nineteenth ogntury 93 eur. ostties, pretty mich as the abjucts of all ages ate Gal cil fay Spotl nate ou Musguus ear by, ‘The world forgets Its aucigut mind Wileh Brew aveund wish pliase et plies of which Qui Cs falthy at length theso beauties too turn oub a to have heen organteally phiated to Tere voveradvle epochs of inward lifes; att thus, onthe sack Jncob's Larter, some forms til and disappear, while othars ascend, Liicless, ry Wy were some forms of “ourly Bhgtish ? which dit not naturally tleseend, but hurled down by: the somber fanaticism of Poritanian The naw innel ridiented revival of early Knalish onamentation and easttimes Is hot whinsical as some deem; it is a revival of things whieh were genuinely related to English Ce, character, and ctimate. ‘They were hebraized tinder a réghng of hard platisn which fs now outarawn. No amotunt of ridienty ean overrule the fact that the prin conventionalisins in dress which prevalled gt the beginniag of Unis generation have been broken ty and dismissed forever. A elinos of costumes hing followed, andl it waa well represented it this moticy tiree-days’ care nivalatthe Albert Hall. But if any ladies Jind appeared thete in the dress that was nor mal twenty yours age, she would have been funghedl tt tore loudly. than my, “osthotle of vir tha. ‘The old tyrauny of Pailistinism having buct removed, all muuiner of antignt- (ios Nave comm forth. Socluty Mntsq terades in than, ant the effect is ndebeauti¢ul, hale ludicrous; but forves of natural selection Will work among then, and every senson Ine dleutes thita more perfect order will pres- totly appear gut of this chavs, xt \ Hondur ul ip compictely the oli Snulish Fair has disappearsl Every year the charnetertsties of “murrie England q be: come more and more historical, At Epson races thers ate ne inore: sideshows, 10 speckled boys, no fatewomen, no dwarfs, glauts, living skeletons, ‘The Richardson Show is Fone, nercasing crowds of eople aintse thamselves with plenteotts po> ations of beer, throwing sth wid shooting from toy-cuns: ATKetY,. the sane at filrsy even at Coventry b there Is ntost noting of Whe old than Godiva ls forbldden to lead her processiait through the town, however tet chad, The old Shrewabury Show aceastonally HuDeitrss butonlyas a ghost of its former self. ‘Tho Lord Mayor’s Show halds out longest, but it Isa sad spectacle, Probably George pliets aun is responsible for Ute hidhug away of the fairies thas used to dance ul sin.‘ railways have let iietoo much hight on thelr solitudes, ‘The fragments of that strange past, pieked up and set aplaving ke pup- pets nt Albert Hail, were amusing, but there wisn sud side ty them, Hitman nature de- yours Its own children, and sometimes plays. wigh thelr bones, ‘ SPANISH SPORT, Savage Work ofa Young Murelan Bull, Ma tet Curreepondenes Landon ‘Telegraph. ‘The dreadful seone of the day was, how- ever, yet to come,for a youn Mureian bull of a dull din color had not entered, thoush he was already betug tormented by lila keapers In the cage. Scareely had his comrade been dragged forth than out he etme into the centre of the ring with a bound, lushinc his sides with lis tall, aud fooling viclously round, The “ piculurs” had by this thre entered, and on their blindfolded horses had taken up their positions at the sides of the thug tear the fence; the " cupeadors" were allin thelr places, aud the exeltement was Antense, {nan instant the creature was across the ring, nnd had rushed nt one of the horses, Invaln [ts rider caught the Infurkited as sitilant on the point of his innees in vain he pushed as hurd ag he conkd to stave off its terrible horns; the bull would not be dented, but In spite of Ianee and rider, and horse’s feet, pushed his horns Into the stonneh of the wretebed cresture, wid, turning thom round, aetmally ripped up the entire belly, tearing ont tho whole of the entralls aud toss the rider Into the afr, Down weut tho horse, and up rushed the “ capeadors,’” stececdine lan divert the: bull's uttention; but foramoment only, for the Lull had cleared half the ring once more and had rushed at another horse that he saw in front of hin, For w thne It seemed as though this tao qust share tho fite of theather, for the horns were tinder 1 and the bull could nat be kept off; but by some miracle the untinal passed beeath without delng more than upsetting the “ pleador,”? und was quon another horse before single * enpeador” could come up, With more success this time the hua horns Wereable once again todisembowel the horse id dethrone the rider, and the bull was lett ree {ontiack i fvesh horse and to servedt likewlse, neorpatN ‘To a stranger not a Spaniard the sight was now horribly revolting, for three horses lay struggling upon the ground with the whole of their insides torn out, and the ball; tron the efforts af the “+ pisadota was bleeding rapldly from its shoulders, Worse was, however, yet to follow, With arear like that of on, the bull. now dashed over tho ring ones more, He bad seen the first horse he had attacked trylug to stritggle from the ground, and he resolved to attack him agin, Up he rushed, and, standing over the wreiched creature, whose eyes lind been closed by bandages, he began ones more to gore hin, Us thine rend open his neck and part of his shoulders, ane so pushed bin against (he fence in one wan- gled hunp, Happily, the horse was by this time nearly dead, bat the sight of Its torn body wis one whieh I could searely sup pork, : ‘The bull was evidently mad. So said the Madrillenos, who. for uiat reason now thought it was thie the “banierilleros” should enter and run a orisk of their lives, So, in obedience to the command of aristor eratic Madrid, the poor fellows with the darts entered and began thelr desperate work. Over and over again they. tried, at the Imminent peril of thelr badies, to plunge In- the -barbed arrows, and over wut over again the plunging bull made them tly for safety, ‘But. thelr suputlor intelliyenco radually triumphed, and two by tivo the darts were uilixed, Wt, teary the bull stood fn the centre of It ing for the “espada.”” What this gentlenman’s ine was Is not go Meh to the polnt as thas he was very nearly an amateur, havin been alawyer fn his eattler days, Te was nob the one Who hud entered at first, and grave doubts oxisted whether he could kill the bull, However, in he cane, mate the usual speed and npprovched the infuriated beast. ‘Tho ghiarges wore daly minide, and now was the (hue for the thrust, when jt became apparent that without the ald. of the.“ capedors” the “ospada” had’ no amore chance of giving n satisfactory thrust — than Wo lind of cating bis enemy. Over and over again hy tried, with always the sine result. Ho woul get lis sward o lithe way Into the neck of the bull, aul then, leavin, there, would dance away with the antial after him, only to. be saved: by tho clouks ou! die “chulos” or “capradurs”; ten he would haye a tresh sword brought him and try again, Front loss of blood the beast al-. wsost fulnted, ad there was w pause, ‘Thun came another rush, for the Indoiit- able spirit of the bull was not yet conquered, Another stab followed, but with only. this siievess—that It seemed to daze the bul for a moment and nike him fall to the ground; sul bag Ie Iyul not killed hin wis dewon- strated by the faut that tne autmal got up and mite another bounds ‘Che, Madrid “seflars” owers by this time delighted. ‘There was blood Howing enough even for them, for several men had been silghily hurt, three ‘horses killed, one seriously in- Jured, and the bull was bleeding from a tos gn waunds, Down fell the Murelan, but not to die—he rested, ‘Chere was @ ery for tho slaughterman to-come up ond strike the boust, and aficiny now stepped forward, No suoner had he dong so, however, than ones more the poor bruty rose and cssnyedt to walk away, bearing the sword with him, olonk or man could now tenipt lim to iu Slowly, he moved round the ring, followed nd surrounded by a crowd of bulcbers, dis dainine them all, for three or four minutes, loo and without ane to Uke ‘ground With rae, ho ring walt- when, trom loss of other Hight for life, he squic for the Tast time and than dliat 1 a any, « Ufelt L cauld: »! na lon) er look upar the rest of tha "entertainment ?’—the din! daughter hud unerved me, ‘Vo the people it Madrid, however, It was. by no mens destituts of BINRUMIONE, for they tow cots posed thomselves to withess the ‘afternoon's proceedings with becoming satisfaction, and Fufreshiug thomsolves with orange ie aa dente,” ond clyaruttes, shouted haan for po next bud und the. pleaded”? 1 They love it,” auld a native of Madrid to me as we wont out toxether; “und sooner than give up thelr bull-fights they would have y reyu- lution.” [should say,'froin wht J saw just Sunday, thay hy was riht ee pitad diss Lah ES t Credit Where MIs Rue, - | 'yidall writes to tha Lougon Times to the frat discoverer of.4 "accondary whiek saseoa poesia Leroy q 4 ORES, Wid BN wi a ai) Wor coven thor hope ut Vite. saceifices ‘s which rosultod - 4a Tbe maw. of this wan war ve Of tha German Villa ated by restle A voltae wus ig pros. iieel brie decease ae Glan plates Of plauinuin ry substituted for tbo the plates hoin lates nro’ detached from ro jetac! gutvanometer nud Joined, even for 1 mom ent two metals thore is no current, humoxenoous; but if those platinum pl ton voltala hattary, the current which passoa will sleatroy. ® homogencity or tho plates, Lt tho electrolyte be noidulated wator the water wil bo deoumpedl, a tim of hydrogen corering poe piactoual efinte aad a aie of oxygen the 4 platinum platoe aro ounneetod with fa tor the etre Font produced will bo strong enon, anh ti noodic wala, uside, When ington of he filins of gna, solld layers ure ddposited clectro- lyUeally on one or the other of the homogone- ‘ous plates, tho duration of the ourrrent fs pros longed, and soveral culls thus rendetad active throuzh tho agency of an oxtrancous current coustittitu a secondary Unttery,” ns Rittor dise covered BY employ mates of lend od mH dort nymamenan homogeneaus, — conver them yirtually into different plates by trancous curreut, dL, # tho effects obtaluad: by follawed and Tmprnved. covering the plates of Ioud with minium, with tho ald of tha current now obtainuble at a simul oxpunse, bo bas producod a secondary battery “of great power and of cori= siderable practical promise. ° Prof. mdait thinks that scicutitie men huye a right to demur tu che phraseology. in which Bi. Faure's sion of the disvovery of Ititter has been intro- duced, and he communicates tho factain tho z ante aun) ated n Intons|fie Tar, fi Faure’ bas upon M. Mante, and, blu German who tnado tho Brst discovory fi direction inzy not be forrotton, zo HUMAN SACRIFICES. Droadful Peracticos of tho Dahomoyan Kinz Gelote, Tho Wesleyan Misstonary at Dahomey, the ey, John Milun, gives a most sickening, ne- count of the drendful practices of the Da- homeyun King, Gelele, whieh fully confirms the statenicnts published previously concern ing the King’s sacritices, Every year Gelelu mukea extensive sierifices In henor of tho oners of war, ‘The Dahomeyans nnke wars on the nelghboring tribes, and munnge to capture n Turge nitmber . of — prisoners, ‘The custom lust year lasted through several tlays, there being 2 slaughter every day and night. © Mr. Milum Was several tines siummoned to the palace, and, thouzh he saw no sacrifices, the ovl- dences of them were unmistakable. On Dee, St, after several days lad been occupled with thy revolting ceremonies of the “cus- tom,” Mr. Milun wrote: “The yearly custom may by King Gelete for hly father Gezo ts not yet finished, & nun ber of Important matters lnterferine aud eall- Ing for the presenva of the King to settle. At uppears that forty himaan vieting are re- served to culnplete the ceremony—twenty jnen and twenty women, Eighty parsons are to be presented for sneritice, bul, uns dev the cuisy of mercy, one-halt will be liberated. conteny, to tements tuude by previons travelers, these juan Vietiing © ure all. prisoners. of war and have comuiltted no erie, but have simply been unfortumte envugh to be eaptured Whilst defending their homes against die in- ying fox, ‘The people, knowl my oplt- fon upon the subject, are reluctant to furnish ne with full information of all the seerifices that take pince; but Latn strongly impressed, dint they sare offered: every day, for every morning L hear the King’s ‘erler erylng the grew naines of the King, and beating his bell aud golog through the whole cereniony. that 1 deserthed in connection with the poor wom- an sierificed In the inarket-place, and soon utter } heard the tattoo of the drums and the firing of inuskets, whieh announces that tho: cruel deed is donc. “Moreover, the birds neter ceuse tu congregate In the region of the ravine where the bodies are thrown, close to the wratched hut in whieh L an todged, and whenever the whit blows in this direction 2 obtain a most alckening smell of puttifylag flesh, and Dhave but to go out- side the walls at the componnd to see the gorse vultures and turkdy-buszards: sitting fn erin silence in tho trees near the dreadful pluce or ay the wing elreling over it. “Ihe vietling this year, ay well as the las! are from Mikkam, « large town to tho east o Duahoney, whieh was livaded and destroyed by the Dahomeyans last year, and from whleh, it.ls stated by some Intelligent natives, thors were brought g little over 17,000 captives and 700 heads, 1 ogive these — miumbers ts I have recelved them, foam not In nh position to verify them: I- only Know unit it was avery populous town, nud that all the women and ebftdren were within the walls when it was attacked by die Daho- hin army, ‘This yenr te Dahomeynns sought w vali for a pl dleeiay from every town yan their appronch, Which accounts for the fucb that the poor Mikkant people have bevotue the victims thls year lor sugriiive, Thave no desire to be sensitional, butl should like the English public to took nt the follow facts; Ito Gelely began to rela about the year 185; he, therefore, hag been reigning about tventy-suven years. During - that tine ne has offered, upon oa yery «mod erate «averize, 200° hinman — sneritices yearly. It therafure follows that he lias mure dered sinew hits relgn, in cold bload, ab jenst 5,400 prisones of war, 1f to this be aided the thousands of heads brought home from war, King of Dahomey tink the present living; and whatsecms such an oxtraordianry: thing Jy that these sueriilees take place with in sixty iniles, avd the towns tat are deso- tated by this cruel people are mostly within 10d niles of the const, | Le appenrs tame that thls Is) an evil’ nearly If not quite oqial to the slave trade, and calls loudly to the elvillzadt Powers for suppression. ‘The Dahoniwyuvarmy is now elamoring tu theRing tobe nilowad to go back to Abeokuta for thelr vest war. Ef they zo, they may nat actually capture the town; but they will kidnap u wary: travelers, stop all. agricultural, ope! tlons, destroy” all the farins, aud spread de olation on every hand, ‘This is whut occurs during the ihrst three or four months of every year, the harvest months for the faymer, “1 have but to r to my detehtion and the inconve wa cused ine to prove that the King disrernt tnnde with him dn May, 877. I belleve ft would be one of the greatest ucts of mercy te thonsands of poor, down-trodden people it the British Government were to annex the hola const-llne between Quetta and Lagos to the Gold Const Cutony,”” ' Te 5 Wats. + An oxamination of the wrotebed Philadolphia. hovel in whieb Mra, Fritz’s little laby was - ghawed ta death by rats inst Thursday toorni revenla o atate of aifalra infinity dlgguating an discroditable, There are holog cyorywaere in the Hoar, walls, and. calling through which rats, unoy of them of enormous size, are constantly: appearing and disappeuring by the score, creutured ire buld enough to dismay o terri In the daytion, but nt night they hold a curt val, and aro strong autd RaVaye enough to mal steep dungerous even for grown geupla. The night after the denth of tha baby, Mr. and Bira, Fritz wero afraid to aleep to the bed whoru their ehid tid been au frightfully. mutilated, bus finally yielded to fatigue and retired, taking: thelr three rewaloing children with thom, after they wore horrified to sup, by the cundle which hud beou feft burning, two enor mous rata leap on tha bed, and, after rynning rapidly over tt in scarch of anethor child, Pear 1a the durkness on tho athor sido, ag thoy thought, The nelyhbirs expreas tho oplnion : that the miserable shuntics Gaqhe To bo razed, nud sposk is of mild terug of tbe owner of tha roperty, who, thoy say, will charge rent far the Hovis ntl! they drop to pieced or burn down, ———— Sponge-Cultures oA " recuntlysiuiued roport of Prof, Dia ute wise ‘Conimissioner of tho sCnited Stuled, Wo yloun souly vory interceting facts ro- wurdug thy secentduvelopmunt of aponge-cult- ure, Anions tha more recont ontorprises in tha way of tho artificlal propagation of pauatle ani 1yuis, Prof, Oscar Schmidt, of the Uulvorsity of Grits, Uns buen so successful in bis preliniuary offurts tn the artivicial propagation of the spongo that tho Austrian Governmont bus authovized hha to attempt the dovelopmunt of the industry Fe ae aa eae one siiupla, cons! x in the spring, dividing 4 living marketablo sponge into nuuerous small pleces, and fautentius them to etukes driven into the sui- Lottom, Those fragments at ouce begin togrow ‘ont, ond wt tho end of ugtven time euch one be- conics’ ap vutire sponse. cite to Dr Schmidt, three. yeu suillclons length of Unuy to obtuin frou ‘emul plecas falr-alzod sponyos, Ly one experimont tho cost of rawing 4,060 “sponges wipounted~ only to $50, and thls Jovludod the Litergst for thros years on the cape dyad awployed.- 3 F ‘ Bases! fe New York Sun, Tu tho Hritlph uuvy ollicersand men may wear all thy fave balr thoy can grow, but ia. tho ary. uxgept on forcign servico, beards amp tu In most of the-Contucntal armiey‘slullar re- pai ore in teas “ el tr aemenst are more t Miulster’ of-U War. bua feauod a , order (0 .thoeffout that, inaumuch a6 hw hearg. that in somo cases beards have been prabibited, be must remiod alk eu ulcers « that, by a Bilulsterial Nan of. ull men. ju she army may wear their tucurbialr Juat as they. ee: in ce walters are cigucously prublblted from wearing aiustachs, the same rule attains in leads oan ants ly Now York, 4 gentleman tate ot ® young joan # place in one of thes catabliahuedts, but, thougb vary anxious pas he loved bis rhustaoke better then lucca. doollavd thy place, . tho galvanomotor tho cure © ' 1 extons , ho Tinea, xo that the labors of the hums * mnemory of Iiis father, the victlns being pris + ¢ to capture the Inhavltants ~ way be regarded us the greatest murderer rds the terms of the treaty oy. 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