Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 29, 1881, Page 10

s The National Short-Horn As- sociation. Gov. Catlom’s Delay in Issuing That Proclamation. The Fat-Stock Show an Assured Success, An Increased Demand for Thor+ oughbred Bulls. Relative Prices of Draft HorsesThe Hereford Convention. [This department will hematntatned in the futerest of the live-stock breeders and feed- ereof tho country, it belng the alm of ‘Si RINNE fo embrace in these columns fresh, newsy matter, Including everything that per- tins to the growth aud prosperity of the trade} 'fho National short-Horn Assoclations ‘Khe reeont conyentlon of the National Short-Horn Breeders’ Association: nt Jnck- souville was, lu one respect at least, themost important mecting ever held by that body. "Tho ussochation counts among ts members nearly eyery well-known breeder of the country, and consequently any measure adopted by the soctety directly affects thy entire Short-Horn Interest. At every annul anuthering for the past five years the question of the propriety of covsolilating the various Aerd-books of the country: has been regular. ly introduced, and the result, has always Deen, after hours and days of discussion, that nothing has been accomplished beyontl establishing the fact that such a movement was abnost universally approved. ‘The pro- prletors of tho herd hooks, who also belong to the associttlon, have endeavored to dls> cotrage apy such move, and, as thatr Interest is simply one of dollars and cents, they are perhaps justified fn combatting scheme which, if suecessfully earrledt ont, wilt deprive them, of handsome enn Many meibers of the association have h tofure been passive in thelr support of the measure looking te the adoption of a single uniform hert-Look, to be edited and controlled by themselves, simply teense they were not disposed to nsalst i (introducing such 11 expen-, sive oxperiment, Withtit tho past year, bow- aver, there has been a very marked and generat yovital of Interest upon this subject, and tha Ureeders and farmers of the West ahd south. purtlealarly seem to be determined to make tha exporiment at al iazards, ‘Toe proposition 2d- vunced by n committee appointed for that pur- pose nt the recent convention isto procure a eharter by cnnetiuent or otherwise, to place tho association upana tient basis flvanciily, to make honorable and fair proposals to the herd-book anukers looking to the purchase of their bovis and xppurtenn sand, after having accom~ shed these desirable ineastires, to record ped Ixrees and supply an authonticnted and reiuble herd-bovk at a price that will enatle every min who owns @ -Short-Horn to buve the peok in bis Mbrary. ‘The enpital stock ot tho assovintion bas been fixed at $l, ud dollars, and since tho: adoption of tho eeporl recommending consofhiation ininy thon xaud dollars’ worth of stock hay been sitbseribed and there aro enotgh who are willing, ready, aad anxlons to vomne int the sebute to place Ib lipon 8 sound financial footing at once. Tho chiof trouble sill avise when an effort is. mado to purchase the presont books, As gs been sald before, those books ara a, yource of considerable. revenue, especinily ii tho case of the American herd-buok, ‘whose proprintor, Str, Lowis T, Allen, has for thirty-tive years recorded %% per went of alt the pedigreed Short-Horns in Anier- fen, and hina in that thine become quite wealthy, ‘The * Kentucky Sort-Horn record.”. tho “Onto decord,” and tho “Cangdita derd-book aro ulso owned by private parties, who, foreseeing @ determinition on the part of the Nattous Asgoviution to publish tno own oBteial record, have, it Is tinderatood, tueltiy ngreed_ to discon+ linue publishing aod Join thy movement tor vonsolidation upon yery liberal terms, but Mr. Allen does not eeem dlaposed to even incel, the ty half-way. itis not itesigned to make a Ayht on the Aterieny hord-book, and If from qotives, arising fram Atubborn selfishness Sir. -\len wilt not dispose of bis. interesty at a file xemieration, tho nygociation will proceed te piubligh a record upow their own responsibilty, Tho intter course would make the vonture mn expenalye one, but, once thoroughly organized and under way, sich a herd-book would of course tmmedintely be auopted ns the standard, it would then become simply a game of Ereeze- ont, with the chances deeidediy in favor of the ussocintion. Thero hus alwuya heon a fecling atinong breeders thut the cost of recording pedi- Hrees wis excessive, gud this expense hua teen particularly felt by some farmers who, perhups, are just starting a herd and eaunot afford to expend money as frecly os their woalthier nelghbors, ‘This has been felt for years, and the National orgnalzation seem ut last to have arisen above mere persounl prejudice and pref- erence, and It would appear that thera Is tikely tobo a determined fight against a species of monopoly whlch has for many years beon a causo of Josscs in both time “and ninney to eattle-breeders. Of one thing breed- ors. omy rest assured, end thit | Abat the Hegotintions and arrungemenis baye Veen placed In the bands of gentlemen who wilt garry out tho deslun if) possible, aud ne thoy have the suppartand good will of seven-tenths of the Short Horn nen of the continent, it may bo safely predicted that success will foltow tholr efforts, Tho money necessary to place such x venture beyond the danger ol faiture can une doubtedly be readily secured, but much depents upon tho mauagement of such m work. ‘Th success of the nei achemo will depend not. so much upon tho ability a8 tho character of the executive head of tho affair. A bllons or dys- peptic individual will not do. ‘The person who nUporvises the compilation of. the record, upan whom really rests tho onerous dntice of the en- Hiro worl, nist bo a brond gage tan, of Ib. eral views whoso «ualiticanuns extend beyont tho mere fuct of clerical eapneity. After many years of tabor, duriug which sevs oral still-bunts have been organized, having for tholr objcet the overthrow of the booknmukers, thore ut last nppeara to be a prospect of 1 fair, BUnre struggle between the men who ralao tho euttlo und those who huve recorded them, and the general public will wateh the strugglo wih great interest, ‘Tho Shipment of Dalry Calves to the Went. Some weoks since a rumor was current to the effect that Gov, Cullom was about to issne 2 proclamation scheduling certaln districts tu New York, Pennsytvanta, and: Maryland in order to stop the further shipment of dulry calves from those locations inte this State, ‘The authority for such & proclamatton was couferred upon the Governor by legislative enactment last winter, aud this action was brought about through the well-grounded and expressed -fears of the cuttlo-breeders iil feeders of the State, ‘The general public has no Idea of the extent of this new mnt pene. Har branch of tho trade, and its provosltlous ure only exceeded Infextent by the continual risk which follows the shipment of these calves, Jb fs not elaimed that tuo 10,000 young calves received at the Union Stock- Yards during the tnst four mouths were all infected with contagious dlgease, but when tha fuct Is stated that a very lurgo portion of them are shipped from distriets where pleu- ro-pneuinonia Is known to exist, the danger of tho tragic and the absolute’ necessity for hroimpt action on tho part of the State authori= Ues become apparent. There {snot a single breeder In the Btate who would uot favor sus sjncasuro looking to thy termination of this bugl- need, Which pluces thelr herds at tbe mercy of unprinelpled men, who disregard the Interest of a bustncss representing over # inilllon and half ollurs, in thelr xraeping desire for pratt ainado by tho Importation of these calves, As lu every business, tho law of supply and demand creates 4 murket and renders protlt possible. There can la no doubt that 33 found for alt calves brought ta Wi sributing palnts, but the sen who are engaged dn this tralio have no right to_bedge the West+ ern Drecdery ubent with the frightful plaks nt= tending their unprincipled and reckicss greed for money, 1t is tlmose tinpossibla to extinnte the loss whieh would certuiuly accrite to the cate tw interest of Milnois and neigbboriag stutes should pleuro-pncumonia secure tt foothold, Once tocaty an authenticated ease in Minolta und the deprectution In the yaluo of cattle would bo enormous and almost heyuud cums putadion, = it has been stuted by selentitia wud practical men that there is absolutely no. curo for thiddreuded diseiso, tho aly ray, by which Itean bo orydlcnted being tu slaughter the anltnals tnfectad, With these fuots staring: then In the face, stockmen are perfectly Justi- Hed ju demanding euch action ug will at least reileve theus Ju uw Wensure from the nnxtuly and jeurwhich shay Ory at prevent conipelled te feel, Gey, Cullont it conversation with a famuns represuitaulve ntter the Jacksonville couyen- Hon, stated that be had gontuinplated jauiuy & proclamadon sebedullag uguiost the furthor ehipment of thoge unives into Ilivois, but, utter eousuitation with 4 number of cattle’ meu, had conctuded that be would still further consider thy mutter, So many wuteriul {iterests would uffectod by such @ miuasure that ho vid not seu hls Hey nariectly cleur fu the matter, Ho apprectated the danger whieh would follow the appearance of any infection: wo AMON fhe hernia of tha Kture, but was not prepared to take offical action tn the premises until be had consulted other (nterests. and had farther con- Pidered the matter. The recent ShocteHorn Convention appointed n.commiltice to watt upon the Governor and urge the Importance of tho subject, and ag the yenutiomen composing this committee have lnmense interests ar stake pers fonally, and represent, colinetively, tho breeders of tho State, who are In earnest about this calf nulsance, thoy will, it is hoped, auececd htt cons vineing tho Governor that prompt action is necessary, The Forthcoming FatsSteck Show tn i Chicago. Arrangements for the fortheoming fat- slock shaw ate being rapldly pushed fore dy Mr. J. 1s Moore, of the State Board, who agaln Mills tho udsition of Superintend- ent of Stalls and Forage, is at the Exposi- tlon Bullding hurrying forward the erection of stalls amd pens, Mr. Moore states that there will be extra: stall room to aecommio- dite twies the number of cattle exhibited last year, and the provision for thelr care and haudilag will execed any previous exhibi- tion. He is somewhat diseommoded by sam- ple cases and stock of goods which were shown at the position aud whieh have not yet. bees removed, but an- flelpates na. diMeulty in having every- thing ready for the reception of stock as carly as Wednesday next. ‘The arrange: ments thus far made are of course based upon the entrles already tn the hands of the Seeretary, but, ns large miumbers of adidi- tional entries are being receiver, and wit! continue to arrive until sfter Monday, tt is probable, if not certain, that every nen of Space allotted will be occupied, fn past years the peaple of Chicago aye not alven those shows tho patronage which thoy deser ‘There has existed n prejudive against them, arising largely: from n preyaiting Impressian that the exhibt- tions are intended solely for stock-raisers; aud Niere his also heen an impression abroad that tho show was neither a clot nor safe place for ladies and children. Nothing could be furthor from tha truth, Tho stalls and pens are kept lia very eicanly miition, und so faras entety igconcernod every aulmal [s securely Ued and carefully watched, rendering vicious nttacks or nculdents of that kind Impossible. A special oudeavor will be made to inake the show attractive, and ft ig the ain of tho managers to: atferd every comfort and convenionce for visit- ore, It is estimated that during the weol at lenst 10,000 brenders und feetters of -stock will yisit the city, and as a matter of course they will to very irge extent utilize the opportunity to do. 1 vitet ninount of trading, thas adding very ma- terlully to tho volumoof business fall branehea of trade, It [8 thorefure to the personnal inters eat of Chiicage buginessemen to countenance tho altar, and attendance cons tribnte. to’ the th exhibition fully merit! ake highly moritarions stock-shat. success re red, and it ig due to tho enterpris xentlenen of tho State Roard Heer with Neg approval and Mpancial ald.of Chicago people. rey amber of the businessemen of tha elty nave offered soveral extra inducements In the way of speck premiums, and. it is this spirit that uttructs herdsmen anid makes success eer- tit. ‘ Jeistindorstood that Mayor (Tarrison will be present on tho opening day, and be isexpecteil to deliver a welcoming address. It Jy the enetom of the Prince of Wides to open tho yearly fat- stock show at Silthtleta Market, London, upon Which occasion large numbers of the nobility xivo Cclat tu the occasion by their presence, tho ladies “being present in” Cuil’ dress, ‘and tholr presence on egeh recurring day of tho ex- hibltion constitutes a lending feature, ‘Tho fortheoming show will possess an many attrie tlons as Smitnileld lms ever presented, and thera saith bea lirge attendance of Chivago resi- jeuts, Ureeders from all parte of the United States and Canada will attend to compare notes, re- eclve instruction, and witness the perfection to which cattle, swine, and sheep can be brought. Untehers from Ameriezn and foreign eltios will be present fn senreh of fat. Christnins beef, and. the general public should tale advantage of the opportunity to behold the reanita of ove of the grentest Interests of tha country. Increased Demaud for Thoroughbred Halts, [t has been proven by repeated experl- ments that no “sernbh” beef in which the fat istini and cannot In the nature of things be evenly divided will give the rich ilayor af the marbled steak or ronst ent from thor: oughbred or high-grade animal. As an edu- cational measure, Unis fact has become 60 ap: parent that there Is an universal endeavor among tecdcers and extensive ranchmen to procure fine-bred bulls, whereby thelr herds are improved by good crosses, and they are thereby enabled to go 10 market wilh Dul- Jocks for,which six ands half cents is freely paid, and the feeder rendered corre- spondingly happy. The days of stringy beef are virtually past, and the consumer can now procure meat that Is palainble and digestible. ‘I'he mieroseope hag had much to do with this improvement, and to this searching examinttion of (he texture of meat may de attributed muel ot the present uni- versal lnprovenent. The demand for high-erossed grade beet has reached every portion of {he country, even to the districts from which, eatile are driven long distances to market, it having been conclusively proven to the satisfnetion of herders all over the country that the cross inust. he made IL they hope to compete sue- eessfnlly with feeders whose eattla range ts within ‘casy’ access of the rent market een- tres. “The ‘result has been that for months Waist thoroughbred young bulls have been in great. denmanid, nearly avery breeder hi the country blog in receipt of more orders than he ean possibly fill, tis not unlikely from prevent Indtentions that prices for choles stock of this ehuracter will rule very high during the coming winter, and the spring” trade will be unnreesdenten. High prices, however, will not Bop tho merltorions eiforts In the line of ine provement, as It hag been dumonstrated that auulity: ds. necesmary, and good young things Will be sought a at fabulous rates, All this ig vory encouraging to breeders, who at the present moutent are upon tho threshold of a gl gantie “ buon,” We it were within the -provinco uf eclenca or Practices! knowledge to jusire tho progeny of thoroughbred cate, the ratsing of bully ox. elusively would become almost -uniyersn! for imuuy months to come, but, ae this ian imattor beyond tho control of man, it must follow that allwell-bred stock wilt bring outsite prices at no distant day, A Gonulne Boom for tho Polled Cattle, ‘tuk Tress recently referred to the In- creasing popularity of the Polled breeds of cattle, and Inte events prove that there Js 9 growlig fancy for these sleek, hornless anbnals, Within the past week a number of black Potled cattle have arrived In this city, several of which are to be forwarded ta tho furin of John V, Farwetl, in Nebraska, Findlay & Anderson, of Lake County, have been adding to ther herd of Pollet stock, but tea most conclusive proof hut the, highest honors of the position wer nol unworthily bestawed Ia found In the fact thst Col. dohn I Gillette, tho grentest breeder on this continent, Is about to Import quite a herd of these cattle, Col, “Cillette’s pastures tn Logan County have never been profaned ‘by. any- thing but a Short-Horn heretofore, and Als practice hus wlways been to rule a‘ high rade of beef cattle, dnd no man in Mis eon. try has eyer excelled hin ty quality, Is repus tutfon bas been mado un Bhort-Horn atock, and itJs indeed an Inuoyvation to intraduce Pollod eattle upon hia usiate, ‘The xrand Sweepstakes gold medal awarded to the Beoteh cattle at Paris hus resulted fn a craze for then, and, while there enn bo nu question of tholr excellent beer qual tics, it Is falr te presume that fehion cuts po meu Jaques in the Bfonant demand for thoin, tls peo ahly Cal, Gillutto’a Intention to eros the hornluss cutie on hig high-grade Short-Horn, the product of which nist necousurily bow hardy, heavy, and excettent individual, Au Intorestlng Question, Several years ago a breeder of Short-Morns residing In Morgan County, UNnols, pur- chased fram a neighbor who was about to Tutlro from business a herd of what purport cil to bo thoroughbred cattle, After getting possession of the unimals he sent his lst to, the editor of the American Herdbook and re eclyed an authonticated stralght pedigree of ull of the cattle except one yearllng heifer, of whose ancestors or Wstory no mention could be found in tho record, ‘Che helfer bore avery evidence of a well-b1 oa animal, asd bas since. ralsad “eoeneet ooo et oqual beauty. Thu ubsouceot a pedigree, hows ever, is a sertous defect, und ; places tho purchaser Ina position tue, while he fa conviuced, shu ty Q thoroughbred, fu cannot prove it, the consequence boing that ie has suffered eon? stant losiuy, Tho purty from whom the hulfer Wis bought ts now deccased, and it is probable ‘that the presont owuur, Culling to wet a od ir vc aclew to the ouliuul’s identity from tha TERI URICAGO TRIBUNE: family of the original owner, will bring ait to recover thimmges for tosses auatalned: by renson of his inability to dispow of her progeny ts pure-hlood stock. The netlon, If vonimenced, will be based trpon a giaranive that this pare tiewtar antel wasn thorourhhred, ond the des elston will be fooked for with interest. Ralative Prices of MrniteMorsen, ‘The war of races is apparently, about ex fending to the advocates of tho different breeds of draft-horses, and the show of theso classes at the fortheoming exhibition will be the signal for the fray, ‘Lhe Norman horse flow ocenples an enviable position in the ¢: teen of Western farmers and others who re- quire teants for heavy work, but very recent ly there has developed n growlng tancy for tho. feather-legzed Clydesdates, which will result ina grand struggle for the position of supremacy, If prices of drafl-horses abroad establishes relative inerit, the Scotelt horse Useem tu be the favorit, Nerwin horses tent pedigree enn be bought hi Pranco today at aetoniahiogly tow prices, white the ‘ydesilaio breeders are, demanding atl recely Ing very high prices for horses of rehuitively om breeding. A Norman station recontly frottubt into this gare, and who Is considered worthy to stand at tho head of nv famous arene of his kluut, was wurclinsud In Huropo far, $2, while a Ciydesdite of repented excolene was vecently shipped inte Miinols for whom his present owner pid £3,000, ‘There ts undontted- iy rent merit in both of tho families, and tlie will prove whtolt Is preforable for general use In this country, The Horcford Conventlou. On Tuesilay, Oct. 8, the National Associa {ton of Breeders of Hereford Cattle will hold thelr annual meeting at the Grand Pacifle Motel inthisetty, It Is expected that the attendance wil be. very Inrge, ay nearly every breeder of Herefords wilt be in the city attenting the fat-stock show to bo held during {hat week, ‘This assorintion fy an ag: gressive one, its menibers being thoroughly enthused with the conviction thatthels tavor= ts are the coming tribe, aid destined to sup- plant all othors In popularity and useralue: This state of rosy expoctation muy ur muy nat be Juatitied, tut cortaln it Is Cant the resoofntion uf Hereford brendcrs $s one possessed of aniinne tou and enterprise: enough to make thomseiyes Heart. A little of the sume agressive spirit and determination might with profit bo infused Into tho sluggish velns of tho advoates of otber breeds, who seem to have renchot a position which they consider Impreguablo, Miscellancous Notes. A-car-load of fut eattle from Kentucky willanlye in the city tonight. ‘hey are from Bourbon County, and are the property of Messrs, Morrow and Munir. The first numbor of the Breeders? Queette, the new weekly Hve-slock journal of this elty, will appear Novy. Mr. J. IL Sander of the Treasury Cattle Comission, is tne editor and proprietor. Mr. Marshall Field, of this city, lias of- fered a spectal premtum af $509 for the heat exhibition of vattle, sheep, and foes owned py ono individual, and cutries for this contest have been numerous, Dr. Sprague, of this city, Is preparing an ox+ baustlve report upon the texture and fibre of meat, and expects to vomplote the puper about Dee, f amd wilt immediately sent tt to tho Cams mlssjoner of Agriculture at Washington, At tho recent Short-Horn Convention at Jack- sonyiite Mr, William Potts, of that elty, proposed tho formation of a State Breeders’ Association, Almilar to the present orguulzations in Lowa und Indlana. The suuyestion mot with general ape proval, and ft was determined to hold a preiiin= hiary meeting at the Grand Paciiic Hotel, this celtyy during the we of the fnt-stor haw, at which Ume tha association will be form Col. John I, Aillett. of Lorau County, Nave on exhibition about: thirty head of hls grade Short-Horn steers, Unele John's reprta- ton fs Internation, wad tue contribution whielt he aends to tho show will certainly be one of its most attractlye features, Among tho enttle from his Carn: will he etzht suow-whtte bullocks, whieh bo with enter for the herd prize. “Mre Cole onel will also ente ‘eof those animals for the special prize of $200 elfered by Mtv, Marshall ¥ cid an the beat Ave head of cattle of any nyo breed, <hivitors at the fateatovk show may con: gratuite themselves upon the vsaurauce wnt no Judges will be selected this yenr who hive uot proven by tholr persunal record that thoy thoroughly wnderstand tho points which they will be oalted upon to deckie. Tho Stite Board have taken great pajns In the setection of Judged and committcamen, aud perfect Calrness 18 pos- itlvely assured tn nll the eclnsses. Chore are, howaver, 0 certain eluss of extibitors whoin no- body eat posalbly satisfy, aud theso peopio muy be expected to ery frau at every opportunity Jf tho morit of thdlr stole does not warrant the lus ribben in avery case. oiiecumenesememmenenn BLAINE'S NOTICE TO FOREIGN POWERS, ‘The following essential part of Secretary Blalne’s “ tdentleal note”? to American Min- isters In Europe concerning the neutrality of tho Isthmus Canal was omitted by the agent of the Western Associated Press, who sent out a badly muttated copy of this important diplomatic communteations Such (forelgn] ownership [of canal stock] With its attendant rights is iu tho United States, amply evotred by thu Inws of tho fund, and on tho isthinua Is doubly secured by tho local laws of Coluintytuy with tho. fuperadied araruntes of tho United Rtates, Norin tine at penes docs the Wulted States seck te have any exclusive privilezes wccorded to.Ameriean, chips iu respect to preeedonce of tolls through an Interoreanle canal any more thin It has sougut like privileges for American goods in trausit over tho Panwa, Mailway, under the exelugive eoatrol of an american corporation. “The extent of the priv- Heros of Atnericun citizend wud ebips Is mens: Urablo under tho trenty of IG by those of Colomblun citizens and ships, It would bo our earnest desire and expectation to sea the world's peaeetin commerce cujoy the sume Just, lihernd, and ration#tl treatment, It is ag ‘resurds tho nuiltieal vontrol of such 8 cannl as distlugulshed from ite ineroly ndtninistrative or comtnercint regulation thut tho President: feols called upon to speak with directness und with oupuusis. During any war inwbleh the United States of Americ or tho United States af Colombla niight bo a party, the passage of armed vessels of n hostite tatlon throuzh tho enoal at Panam would bo ne wore admisaibla thin wofld tho passage of the urmed forecs of wuntion over tho railway lines joining the At Juntte and Paciite shores of the United States, or of Colombia, and tho United States of America, will dosist upon her right to tnke all needful precuutions ituatnat tho possibility of the feth= Tous transit bulng in any ovent used olfonsivos Us ugainat hor iutereata upon the laid or upon tho son, The two rupublies between which tha uurantee of neutral ne and passcesion oxiated beve anmogous condilons with respect to tholr torcltoriubextension, Both have slong lino of const on elthor ocenn to protcet aswell 46 to im prove. Tho possesslons of the United States tipon the Pacific const are imperiled inex. tont of extraordinury growth, Even at tho ‘present stizo of ‘develapment thoy would supply tho hirer put of the trate which wontd seck tho advantage of tho equal, Tho States of Califursia and Oregon and tho ‘Territory of Washington, hirgor ia area thin, England and, France, produce for export moro than a ton of whent for eneh lubabltant, tad the entire freighte demanding water transportation castward, already onortious, uro aummontiug eneb four With an necclerating rato, Whtio the populytion and products of the Pueifie slope are thus incrousing Upon a vast Reale, the riilway system connceting tho Qulf ot Mexleo with the Anterior and with Ute yroat Inkes ls belug rapidly extended, thus affording addidonat faciities for chlurging the commmcren that inuat hook const Ing to the Pactilo, of which the projectud eanul At Pamuna will form a part and be as truly a vhunnel of conmunteation butweon the Bustern aod far Western States ad our own transcontl+ uental rallway, Lt is the perception of this do- niestio Innetion of the Jong-rought waterway: hotween tho two sens that border the Hepitbita which hus caused the project to te regarded fig of vital tinpurtance by this Govern: nent., ‘The histury of the enterprise Marked from tho outset by tho numerous oxpeditions which bave, from thn to thine, been sont out by the United States at large expense, tooxplore the yarlons routes nnd thus fuelti- tate the work when timo should bo rips and the Yast capital bo forthcoming for tho untertake fog. Tf the propased canal were a chunnel of communication near to the countries of tho Old World, aud omployed wholly or almost wholly by thelr commurce, tt might very properly to urged that the Ininence of tha European Fow- ere should ho largo and justly coumensurato with thelr interest, With the exorciao of such Influence the Uulted Stites could tind no fault, My if ngsured of equal participation in abio enjoyment of the commercial so tillordgd. The ease, however, f4 bera rev und in nyreement between the Buro- poun Keates to Jointly guarantee tho neutrality, and Inetfeot to coutrol the potittcal character of whighway of ecommerce remote trom thom and near to uy, ‘forming substantially a part of our eonatelne und promistag to become the chief moans of transportation between our At- Jantlo aud Pacite States would be wn uxtraordls nury procedure, and would be nucessarily viewed by this Government with graye concern, witt An Old Womans Advice, Aunt Rachel, writing to the Cinctnnath Ens quircr, gays; ** When you feel unwell and think you must tuko mediviny, fur soodncsa suke * yet he bal,’ IP you need uw remedy that will make you regular in your habits, give you a good hatural appotite, muke your skit clear and sinooth, aud remove all spoty and blemishes that indiento iNebealth; it ay Wish to be freo frou, Wental depression, Lrotfulnees, peavishuess, wakelulucas, aud other disordura, use Hrowo'd tron Hitters, Tt contalny no algobot, but will take uway that ujnatural devira for’ alcobollo beverages, and make your mind on ly healthy ubund stroug. I know this from experis £ ence, SATURDAY, OUTUBLIC WAIN. MARK A Romance from the Pen of the Noted Humorist. “The Prince and tho Panpor—A Talo for Young Po opie.” : ed Results of, n Freakish Change of Clothes Betweon Two Boys, The Good Old Times in Morrie England—A Satiro on Monarchy. New York Teibine, Vas Prixcn Axp tan PAauven; A ‘TALE Yor St PEOPLA Oe ALi Acre. By Mark |G. Twaln. i at # An essay of Mark 'lwatw’s Inithe region of romanes might reasonatily bo expected to bu orlgiiued, whatever else it wis; ahd ils tale of The Vrinee ant tho Psyper?—of whieh we are able to speak ‘nt this date from sheets inndvance of its publication—certatnly will not Ulsappolnt this expectation in the reader. Lké all other romances, It asks that the render shall takoslits possibility for granted, but this once granted Its events follow each other not only with probability but with reallatte fore . it can do It no harm with any reader who shall take it up to know Its plot, for he wilt find It sufllclently Interesting page by page; and wo may frankly say that the romance asks us to believe that by n serles of accidents tho son of Henry 111, and a stout boy, whom ho miraculously resembles, ' CHANGE PLACHS, The young Prince, whe afterwards becomes ELawaril VL, Is thrust ont of the palace gate, and falling- Into the hands of the pauner’s family, §3 accented as ‘thelr own, while tho pauper begins life ay the King’s son amidst tho obsequious compliances uf the courtestes tmong whom his freakish exchange of elothes with the real Prinee hns left him, Edward ‘Tudor leads from that time on the We of a beaten and hitnted beggar and tramp, aid om Canty sees the other side of the ray of life which he once fancied so Joyous, til they at inst, by another serles of accidents, meet face to facu on Ute Urinco’s coronation day, A charming and useful faetof the conceit Is thateach boy in his place loudly protests against the mistake that has been made: ‘Tom declares tat he isa pauper, the son of & begrar aud a thiel; Edward maintains that” he Is thé Prince ‘of Wales. Both ard thought mit; the mock Prince Is gradu- allf silenced itMflls assertions by the King’s conmumnd, whieh forbids him to utter them or his courtiers to notice thems but the real Prince proclaims his rlght to the very end, all presences and cireumstanees, As it was once a favorit pastime of Tom Canty’a to fancy himself na King, and to form © ragged vourt of street boys about hin, Edward's dectaration is regarded by ‘Vom's faintly as the crazy Inveteracy of this faney, and is met with blows and curses from’Lom's drunken father, aud with tears and Iamenta- tlons from his mother nnd sisters, ‘Nhe Prince escapes from them, and finds A STEADVAST AND POWERVUL PROTECTOR in Mites Hendon, 0 soldier of fortune re- turning from a fong enptivity to claim his father’s estates, This good fellow rescues the Prince from ‘Tom Canty’s father, and saves himfrom a mpv, He thinks’ the boy mad, of course, but he conceives a tender af fection for him; and the whimstent devotions with which hoe hnmors nll the boy's royal ex, actions Is charmingly stuched, Ife finds hhatho just stand uncovered while his ragged pro tégé dines ut. his ecst; that he must sleep athwart the threshold while the Prines oc- cuples his bed; nnd that he must serve the poor “Ittla tatterdemation at overy tum, ‘They, wander down into the cauntry, and after many adyentires and separations they reach Hendon’s hone at last, and tind Men don's younger brother In possession, ‘The latter refuses to recognize the former, and. denies his identity; on Moendon's ‘furious protests and demand for the restoration of Its property, the brother has him and the Prince—now King by Uenry’s death—voth thrown Inte prison, ‘Tho passages wh ich de- seribe the iifein this English Jali are tall ot penetrating pathos and of an historleat truth ond fdetity which make us Indifferent: to all questions of mora verbal accuracy, THOSE HOMBNLE GOON OLD TIMES, whatever tongue they speak, Ive again In all thelr stupid cruelty, In all: tholr sublimity, hero: Honion’s arts oll failed with the King—ho could not be comforted; but a couple of women who were chained near him succeeded better, Under thelr srentte miniatrationa be found peace and learned a degree of patience. Hv was very ratetin, and came to love thom dearly, and to delight In the sweet and soothing iniluonce of iholr presence. Hv asked them why they wore in prigon, and, whon they suid they were Tap- tate he stalled, and inquired: “IN that a crime to bo shut up for in a prison? Now J grieve, for Txhull tose yo—they will not keop yo long for auch alittle thing.” ‘They did not answer, and something In thelr faves inade iim imeasy. Ho sald cugoply: “You do notapeak—be guod to me, and tell me—thoro will be no other punishment? Prithoe tell ne thore (sno fear of that,’ ‘Thoy tried to change the tuples but bls fears were dronaed, and he pursued itt © WH thoy scourge you? No, no, they would not bo eo eruoll Nay thoy would not: Come, they will not, will thoy?” ‘The wowen betrayed confustou and distress, hut thore was no nvolding an answer, so ono of thom gad, In a voles choked with emotion: “OQ thon'lt break our hearts, thou xontlo apirit! tod will help us te bear our—" sett is a contersion!"” the King broke in, “Then they will scourge you, the stony-hearted wretebes! But O you mist nut weep—T cannot. boar it. Keep up your cournge—t shalt como te my own In time toauve you from this bitter thing, and L will do it!” When tho King uwoke in tho morning, tho women Were Kane. “TRY ATE BAVED!? ho sald joyfully; thon ngded, deapondently, Mut wo Fe int far thay web ang. cream cetls Each of them bad left ashred of ribbon planed to his clothing, In token of remombrance, He auld hy would keay those thingy always; and that soon, ho would seek out these deur’ ood spteuils of hisand tuke thom undur bis protec tlon, Just then the Juller came in with some subors dinates, and commanded that the prisoners bo conducted to tha Jules ar ‘The King was overs Joyed—it would be a biersed thing tose the hlue aky and breathe tho freah alr onco more. Ho fretted and cbifed nt thogluwnces of tho oflicers: but hig tara came at lust, aud he was releaued Trom his staple and ordored to follow tho other privonora, with Hendon, The court, or quadrangle, wis stono-payed, aud open to tho sky, Tho prisoners. eutered it Hthrough 8 mnssive urchway of masonry, aud wero pinced In te, standing with thoir’ backs axalnst the wall, A rope was stretebed in frout of them, and thoy wero nlso guarded by their ollicers, It was a cull, aud lowerlug inorning, and a ight which had fallen during the tight whitened tho great empty spuce and added totha genoral dismalness of {ts aspect. Now and then a wintry wiud shivered’ through the pico and sent the snyw oddying hither und 6 ‘ f 1 In tho centro of tha court stood two women, to posts, A glance ho Kug that theay weru his good Ho ahuddered, ond suid fo bln “Alack,: thoy aro not gouc: free, as Thad: thought. Yo think that auoh as those #bould know the laai—Iin Kogland! Aye, there's the shame of it—not {n Heajhenosse, but Chris. tun Bowland They will be scourged; and 1, whom thoy bove comfortad and kindly one trented, mitst look on and, see the great wrong tlona; it 13 strango—so atringo—that 1, the very vourco of power in this "broad realin, win helps tesa to protect them, Hut let these miscreants look well to thomuclyes, fur there isa day com. tog whea I will require of them a heavy reckon fox for this,work, For overy blow they strike now, eee THEY SHALL ¥EEG/A HUNDRED THEN,” A recat pmto swung open, and a crowd of citl- zens poured-iu, ‘They tiocked around the two women, aud bid thot: from the King's view, A clergymuu entered and pasagd through the crowd, aud bo also wambidden, ‘Tho King naw heard tuiking back and torth, as If questions ‘wore belog avked ond answered, but he vould, not muko.out whut wus mud. Next thore wus y doul of bustle and broparation: and much pags- ing and repusuiug of ollicitis through that part of the crowd that stood ou the further aide of tho women; aud whilst this proceeded a deep huah graduully foll upon tha people. » Now by comtnuad the uassoa pata. and fell aside, andthe King saw aspeotacic thut frozo tho Barrow iy bis bones. Fuyots had boven piled wbout the two, women, und a knvellug wan was Hghting thom) ae ‘The womey bowed thole'-Heudy, aud covered +a through th) sis CN PAGTS thelr tn with thelr hands; tho yellow ames: Veran to ellab ipward nmone tho anupphug nu erneliling figota aud wreaths of blue stale to stronm iivay on tho wind: the clergyman lifted Dis tous ant began a prayer, ltist thon two Young girls came tyme Unrongn tha erent gate, littering plerelig sereums, and threw themselves Upon the women At tha stake, Instantly thoy Were torn away by tho officers, and one of thein Was kept (nu tight yrips but tho other broke loose, xaying she would die with her mother, and, Defore she could be stopped, she had: funy her arma about her mothers neck ayailt, She was forn away once more, ind with her cower on tire. ‘Hvo or tires mon held her and the burnttg pore tion of her gown wae snatched off and thrown Bamiog Hemsho Ftruggling wl tho while to free herself, and saying she world be alone tt acing to he allowed 16 die Aris se ed cone but suddenly this tumelt was drowned under a volley of fenrt-plercing shricks of mortal agony. Tho. Wing wlaneed from the frenzied girl to tho stake, thon turned away and leaned his ashen face tiralnst the wall, and lvoked av more, Ho atl: “That whieh T have seen in that ong ttly mos inent will never yo out from My memory, but Will abide thero: and TE stitl aco it nll the days dad dreat of Ital) the nights UM Ldie, Would jou Soap nex nnixp)? Henlon was watching the King. Ie said to hinself, with satisfuetions "is disorder menu- oths he bath ehanired, and grown gouticr, If ho had foltowod hls wont he would have stormed ut these vurle he wig King, and com- nh be turned loose in usion Will puss away and nis ay or inind will bo whole dayt? seathod, ad he forgottun, and bh ain, Gol speed the ‘Tone anno dy several prisoners were brought in to reniain over night, who were belog von- veyed tinder ganrd to various plives tn the Kingdom to undergo punlsiment for erlmes cominitted. The King conversed with theso—he had made ita point trom the beginning to ine atruet blinself for tho Kingly office by questton: thy prisoners whonever tho opportunity offered and tho fate of thelr wous wrang his heart. One of thein was a poor half-witted womnn who had stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver; she wns to be hanged tar it. Anothor was a niin who had been neeitsed of stealing a horses he suid the proof iid failed, anu be had tinagined that bo was enfe from the bulter; but Noho was hardly free before bo was arralguedt for killing acdeor in tho King’s park; thta was preg! nydinst hin, and now be wis on hiy way iq the gullows, Theru was 1 teadesman’s ap renticn whose case particularly distressed to King: this youttr auld ho found a hawk one even- fig that hud escaped from ita owner, and ho tovk It home with him, lmulning hhingetl entl- ted to it but the court convicted him of steal- ing it, und y SEN ED HIM TO DEATH. Tho King was Curious over these inhumani- ties, and wanted Hendon to break Jail and tly with, him to Westminster, so thit he could mount his throne, and hold out bla seeptre in mercy over these unfortiate people, and save thelr’ lives, Poor chili! sighed Tendon, “these worth tales have brought bia mnlndy upon bim agin aback; but for this evil bap ho would have been well tn a tittle tline.” a\inong these prigonera was an old lawyer—1 min with v strong face and a duuuticss “mien, ‘Three years past he bad weltten a pampbict Against the Lord Chancellor, wecuslig tim of fe Justice, and hid been punlshed for it by the logs of hia ears In the pillory, and degradation from the bar, and Jn udditton bad bees thned 01,00), and sentenced to lmprisonment for life. Lately he hud repeated his offense; und to consequence Wis now tader sentence to lose that renielned of hit cays, pay a fine of, £5,000, be branded on both checks, aud rematn In prison for life. “These be honorable sears.” ho said, and turned back his gray tiuir and showed tho mute Jatest stubs of what had once been his ears, Tho King's eyo burned with pasgion, Lo satds “None beteve in me—nelthor wilt thou. Bat no matter—within the compass of n month thot shalt bo free; und more, the Jaws that have dis- Monared thee, aud sumed the Fella name, shall bu awept from the statute books, Tho world is made wrong; Kings shoul go to school to tholy owt Inws, at thnes, and ao learn meray,” Not only tr the Jails, but AMONQ THE TINEVES AND VAGHANTS with his fot was often enst on thelr forays amt tn their hiding-places, the poor little Wandering inonarel was Jearning the duties of his future Kingship trom Knowledge of the wrongs and erneltics Inilleted by the law in the King’s mune, Ata gathering of vaga- bonds in awbarn, they related what had be- fallen this comrade aud that: £ “TTave any of our frionds fared hardly?" “Some—yes, Partlenlarly noweomers—such 18 suiall husbandmen turned shiftless and hungry upon tho world beentigo their tarms were tuken, from them to bo ehanged into sheep-range’. hoy hezyed, and were whipped at the cart’s tall, naked from the girdle up, tll tho bined ran; thon set in the arocks to be pelted: thoy begred nuain, were whipped again, and deprived of they begged a third thne—poor devils, 1 8 could they do?—and wore is with a red-hot tron, then sold for siaves; they ran aivny, werd Muinted down, and broged. "Els a brief tale, and. quickly told." Others of us have tared toes Hurd- ly, Stand forth, Yokol, Burns, ind Hodgo— show your auornmental” ‘Those ‘stood up and atripped away somo of their raga, oxposing their tneks, criss-orosscd with ropy welts lett by tho lush; one tneaoed up his bair and showed the place where a left eur had onee been; another showed brand upon his shoulder—tho letter Vand n mutituted car; tho third sald: “Lam Yokel, once s farmer and prosperous, with loving wife aud kids; now Lam somewhat dlferent in catato and calling, and tho wife aud kids aro gone; mayhap they urein Henven, may= hup in—in tho othor place—but, the kindly God bo thinker, they bide no more dn gnyland? My good old bliunciess mother strove to eurn bread by uurslog the Fick; one of these died, the doc- tora knew not bow—eo my mothor was burnt for a witelt whllat my tubes loaked on and walled, NOLS LAW! Jp, all,.with your cupsl—now altogether and with a ‘cheor!—dvinks to tho Terciful English inw that dulivered her from the English hell! Thenk you, inntes, one and al. 1 bexmed from house to house—f and the wife—boaring with us tho hunyry kids; but it was nerling to bo hune gry tn Rnwtond: te rmuled on the ches Othey stripped tts and Inshert w towns, Drink yo all ngaln to tho merciful Bagiish lnwi—tor its lash drank «tcop of my Aue '8 blood, and Its bleased detiver= ance came quick, Sho les thore In tho pot- ter's Del, sufe from alt harms. And tho kids well, whilst tho liw Inshed te from town to town, they starved. Drink, lada--only a drop—a drop to the poor kids, that neverdid any creature. harm. TL begged waite bosigodt for a crust. und fot tho stocks and fost an var—xce, bore bides tho stump, I begwcd ngain, and bere. (3 the stumpot_ tho other to keep me minded of It, Aud stl T beygod ayn, and wassold n6 a alaves hore on my cheek, under this stain, If) washed Ito, ye ight seo the red 8 tho branding-jron lett there! A aLAves. Do yo understund that word? Au Engiwh tbavel—that is he tbat stands bofore ye. 1 bave frow iy mastor, god when Lam found—the heavy ‘curso ut Heaven full on tho law of the Innd that bath commanded it]—L aball bang)" While the truo Prince was thus storing up wisdum and morey from, Ils experience muong ottensts and enptives, tha mock Prince was practicing both In his own fash- dou in the palace, One day ho saw from his window SUME PIISONENS. QOING TO EXECUTION, and aut of n boy’s pity and curiosity he ore dered them stefd and brought before him: Ile was enger to kuow whut sort of deadly mis- chluf the woman aud the little yirl could bave been about; go by bls command tho two turrified gud sobbing erentures woro brought before hit, * What Is it that these have done?” bo inquired of tho Sherilf. “HMeuso your Majesty, a black: crime fs eburged upon thon, and clearly proven; where foro tho Judges buye decreed, according to tha jaw, that they bo hanged. ‘Choy sold themselves to the Dovil—sueb is thelr erin, ‘fom shuddered, Ha hud beet taught to abhor peo} te who did this wicked thing. Still, he was not folny todeny bhuself the pleasure of fecd+ fog bjs curlosity for all that; so bo Reka Whore wae this doney—naud whon? in, Decembor—lu a ruined church, your Milesty.” ‘vom shuddered again, “Who was thore present?" * Only these two, your Graco—and that other, “Hive these voufoaset?” * Nuy, not so, Slre—they do deny It." “Then, prithee, how wis it known?" “Certain witnesses dig seo them wending thither, Kood your Mijusty; this bred the sus- picion, and dire cifeuts have since confirmed and Juried it, In particular, it 13 {novidence that, through tho wicked puwer so obtalned, thoy di iuvoko und DURING AOUT A STON, that wasted all the rexiou round about, Above forty witnesses buye proved tho storm: and sooth ono might have bud n thousand, for all bax i xpesonyn remember It, sith all hud auifered i Certea, this fs 9 serious matter." Tom turned thie durk pleco of scoundretism over in bis mind & whil, thon asked: * Suifered the woman also by the storm?" Severn] old heads among the ussomblage nod dod thelr recognition of the wisdom of thls question, Tho Shoriff, huweyor, saw nothi consequential in the inquiry; ho answered wit simple directness: "tndeed, did she, your plalesty and moat righteowsly, u8 all aver, Hor hubltation was Wepet uway, ANd hereclf and child left shelter Teas. “Methinks tho power to da horself so ill a turn was dearly bought, Sho bad been choatad had sho paid but a firthing for it; that sbo pald hor sou), and ber child's, arvuoth that sue le moods (fsbo id mad she knuwoth not what she doeth, thorefore sinueth pot," Tho elderly hoads noddui recognition of Tom's wisdom once more, and one Individual mur murrd;) “An tho King be mad blinself, oo- carding to report, then it lva muduuss of u sort that would improve tho sunity of somo | wot. Bh uw by ihe fentio providence of God they could ut cute! 5 “ Whiut ayo bath tho child?” asked ‘Tom, Nino years, ploage your Halusty, ee “Hy tho law of Kngland may a child ENTER INTO COVENANT AND SELL ITSELF, Kee lord?” asked Yom, turning to a Icarnod judwu. tho luw doth not permitn chililto make or meddle in Bey beats matter, good my Liego, holding that Its oultow wit uutltioth tt, to copd with tue ciper wit gud oyll pehgulpgy ‘of thom’ that nro itsolders. The Jieeil may buy a child, AT he xv choose, and te ehitd agree thore to, bu not an Eitaliabtusn—to this inttor enso tho tract would bo null and void." “Tercemetiia rade unehtistian thing, and tl contrived, that English Iuw denicth privileges to Englishmen TO WASTE THEM ON THE DEVIL," erfed ‘Tom with boneat beat. ‘This novel view of tho matter oxeited many: Binilas, tind was stored away Jn may hends to repented fabout the corrt as évidence of ‘Tom's orlginnlity as well as progross toward tol health. The elder culprit tad censed from sobbing, and was broging wpor ‘Kom's worts with ay ex~ elted Interest and a growlig hope. ‘Ton notlerd this, and: ft strongly teelined: his syinpathica toward ber fa her pertions and unfrionded situs ation. “Presently be asked: Hi “How wrought thoy to bring tho atorm? “By pulltny of Meir atockings, Sire." This natonisbed Ton, and also fired his curios: ity to fevershont. He sald eagerly: “tbls wonderfull Hath it niways this drond fa effect: “ Always, my Licge—nt least If the womnn te sirca ft, and utter the needful words, olthor in her mint or with ber tongiie,” ‘Tom turned to the womun, and sald, with im- patuous zeal: “Exort thy powor— 1 WOULD aEE A srorM!?? Thoro was n sudden paling of cheeks in tho strperatitious uasembluge, and a goncral, though unexpressed, destro to get out of tho place—all of which was lost upon Tom, who was dend to everything but the propused cataclysm, Beeline fn puzzled and astonished took it tho woman's free, he added, excitedly: “ Never fear—thou shalt bo hiametess, More— thou shalt go free—none ahall touch thao, 1x- ort thy powe “O,my Lord tho King, f have {tf not—} have beon fulaviy neoused.” * Thy fears stay thoe, Bo of good Leart—thott shalt suffer no harm, Make wsturm—it muttore eth not how sinall a ono—1 rentilre nuught great or harmful, but indeed preter the opposit; do this und thy fifa ig spnredt—thou shilt zo ont free, with thy child, beuring the King's pardon, mud sale from birt or mulico from any In tho renin.” The woman prostrate herself, and pratcated, with tanrs, that abe bad no power todo the mirnele, else sho would gladly wit, her child's Ufe atoue, and be content'to lose her own, if by obeillence to the King’s, command so precious a grave inight bo nequired, Yom urged—the woman still adhored to her declurauons. Finally be ented: “LIthink tho wonnn bath sald true, An’ my mother wero inher plica and gifted with the Dovil's function, sho lad not stafd a momant to call her atorms and lay tho wholo land in rains ff the saying of my forfelt life were the price slo got! Tt is argumont that other mothors ico nude in ge mold. THOU ART FREE, (00D WIFE thou and thy child—for1 do think thee Innocent. ow thou'st naught to fear, being pardoncd— pulloft thy stockings, an’ thou ennst make men stortn, thon shult be rich!" ‘Tho redeemed creature was loud tn her pratt tude, and proceeded to obey, whilst Tom looked on With enger expeetuney, a Mitte marced by apprehunsion—tho courtiers at tho sauce tle manifesting decided discomfort aud uneasiness, ‘The woman stripped her own fe her tittle ulel's also, and plainly did her best to reward the King’s xunerosity with an carthqunike, but it was alla failure and a disappointment. ‘fom sighed and sat: “ There, oot soul, trouble thyself no furthor <thy power is departed out of thea, “Go thy Way In penco: and, If ft return to theo at any Umo, forget ine not, but foteh mo a storm." ‘The litmor here is vintean, but the itying tenderness with which itisinterfusert is something that Cervantes, belng of his own gpoch, could not know. This quality is wholly madern, and ts oftoner characteristle of our chief humorist’s fun than has been generally recoguized. It will, however, be felt throughout his study of thy mock Prince's dificult experienes In the, Royal palace, with its tronblesome eliquet and its unexpected responsibillties, ‘The author has respected his material, and, while painting tho gro- tesquo side of the situation in frst tall. Ness, has made us feet Its finer charm Tn the delicacy and subtlety with whieh bo hag ine dicated ‘Tom Canty’s lapse from lively rehell- fon at lig false position to apbroclatlon of ils comforts aul: splendors, and finally to 9 sort of corrnpt resignation, in which he is almost wilting to DENY 1S POOR OLD MOTHER, when she recognizes him In one ef his pnb- lic progresses: ‘Tho mock King's cheoks were flushed wity ex- eltement, hig eyes were slashing, lls senses awam. ina delirium.of pleasure, At toils point, Just wg ho was ralsing his hund to fling anothor largesy, ho caught slybt of a pnie, astounded face, wi wis strulned torward out of tho second rank of tho crowd, Its intense eyes riveted upon him. A slekeulng consternation struck through birt? ho recognized iis mother! ond up thay his huad, pal pueward, befora | is eyes—that old. iuvoluntury yesturo born of 4 forgotton episode, and perpetuated vy habit. Sn instant more sho had torn her wav Ont of tho press and past tho gunrds, nnd was oe Ais side, “Sho embraced his tex, she covered it wath kisses, shy erjed, * Oiny eulld, my aaelinig)* lifting toward him a fico that was transilyured doy and, ‘The same instant an ollicer of tho King’s Guard snatched her away with 0 curse, and xent her reoling baek wheuce sho cue with ovigerous impulse from his strony arm, ‘Tho words, “I do not know you, woniunt were falling trom Yom Canty’s fips when this 8 thing occurred; but it smote him to tho irt to seu her treated so; and ny she turned for a lngt gilmpse of bi, whilst the crowd was swallowing her from his aight, sue seemed #o wounded, 30 brokenshonrted, that ashume fell upon bim which consumed his prido to ashes and withered his atolon royalty, Dut the movk Prince ts tov good a boy not fo make amends for this when the trio Yrince, in due process of this fantastic drei, comes to rescue him from his pert | ous honors. ‘Cheso are otten of tho sort that voxel the soul of Sancho Panza jn the gov- ertunent of his island: a superilulty of obse- quiousness, A DETAW, OF CEREMONIAL SERVICK that embarrasses and bewlldors the poor boy. One day at dinner, where he had becn wait- ed upon to distraction— ‘Tom oxainined tho turnips ahd tno lettuce with Intercat, and asked what thoy wero, wd If thoy wore to be unten; for tt was only recently that men bid begun to rake these ‘things In England, tn place of tmporting thoi as luxuries from Holland, His question was answered with rave rospeet, and no wurprigo munifested. Whonho had finished bis dossort ho {Vlled hia pockets with nuts; but nobody appeared to bo awaro of bt or disturbed “by it. ut the Noxt momont ho was himself disturbed by it, and showed discomposuro: for this was the only service ho but been permilted todo with 113 own hands during tho menl, und be did not doubt that ho bud dona a most improper and un- princely thing, At that moment the muscles of bis noso began to twitch, and tho end of thut organ toliftand wrinkle, ‘Chis continued, and ‘Tam began to oyince a yrawing dletress, Ho looked appeulingly, first ut ono and thon an- Other ot tho Lords about nim, and tears came into bis eyes, They sprang forward with dismay = -]n thoir faces, aud’ begged to know his trouble, auld with genuino noguish; crave your. Indulyenve; my nose itcheth eruvily, Wout is the custom and usaue in this emergeneu? Pritthee speed, for "tle but a littio tine that f cnn bear it" None stalled; but all woro sore porploxed, and looked one to the other fa deep tribulation for counsel, Rut bohold thoro wig a dend wall, and hothing 1 English history totell how to xet over ft, ‘Tho Muster ar Cereniontes was not present; thore wos no one who felt safe to venture upon. this uneharted acu, or risk tho attempt to solve this solum problem. Alnus! thore was no Hered+ tury Serntchor, deantine tho tears had overe Howed tholr banks, and begun to trickle dawn ‘Yomn's cheoks, iis twitching nose was pleading more urgently than ever for rollef, At last nature broke dows tho barriors of utlyuet: Tom: iifted up an ttfsard prayer for pardon if be was doing wrong, and brought reflef to the bur dened hearts of bis court by scratohing bis nose insole. form the pa- ‘Yon ‘The real Prince’s adventuros thetic side of the storyr though THE CHARACTER OF SULES HENDON Js dashed tn with a rich and bold humor that glves Its color to ull the incidents of thelr as- socintl itis triumphs in ‘reconciling the practical diMiculties of their vagrant com- Tadeship with the ironical deference he pays tho crazy boy (as ho thinks: him) in his ns- sumption of Royal state are denghitully inagined; and, amidst the multitude of types with whieh the story deals, ho Is real: ized the best; ho'ls first of all thoronghly recognizable as a man, and then asa nan of Is own tline and country—the adventurous and generous Englishman of the Continent- hunting age. Itis only {oueliins the story at ono of Its many pohits to speak of it us a, satire on monurehy; in this sort itis a manitial of ree bublicanfsin which might fitly be {ntro- ducal in the schogls. If — breathes throughout tho spirit of humanity and tho reason af democracy in. the his- torical verity which so thuroughl. characterizes It In spito of Its occasional, Tupses of rhetoric, It does bring baek the past, its hurd conditions, its crus! contrasts, With vivid force; and we Lave indivaled its paveatts this direction rather than In its jumorons alde, becauge this has struck us as pecullarly Interesting In the work of a jan who has hitherto been known only’ a4 0 humorlst—a mera farequr—to most people, ‘The romance fs imagined with poetic dell- cacy it has seenes und episodes touched in with the tenderest, sweetest feeling. 1t is full of action, und the Interest holds to te end; and on \ts artlatic side nothtug ts more remarkable than the conscientious. realism of Ms trontment, ‘Lho effect of prosperity on the mock = Vrinco is, perhaps, more subtly studied thin that of ad: yerlly, on the rent Vrineu; but we pink. fg this phuse of the story to whiel the reader will preferably four Me is this, apparently, which the duthor most wishes forcmember, for hy tucad it upon bia al paying inn King's suffering TEMPENED THE KING'S JCSTIOR: when he enine to hls own again: Moro than once, when Home great dh come gikled vassal of the Crown, assago that telly huy . abla nde areas ur h he wats beat on ninending wna ene ‘or Rte purpose, and wrought no nutty pression wile any one need mane je yours King turnest the mourntit ele, tence of his xront: compnssionite ©¥¢8 upon, mtn 103 it th on knn of sultert "What dost th ng ans sion? Land my people know, HTL TOL tees It isn beautiful story, airy and jay an Arab tale in concevtion, but so sollaty feat an wholesome fn effect thatone Wishe tmight have inppened, ment axainat his fonieney, and urged Inw white OLD PHOCION, Ituny tho iver Comintasion into Ms MolemAnd Burrows Among teaq Soldiers and Sallors—The Tinie sippl River Amprovement PUTT Tee wlan Special Correapnndence of The Chieago Trtinne, Monn Crrvy, Ihy Oct SAC last 1 tava sueceeded In getting something Tntelligittg touching the proposed operatluns of “Mssisstppl Ulver Improvement Commis. sion,” which ls been charged with the ke perimental expenditure vt $1,000,000 Upon the Father of Waters. Dut.to get these fuels J hadtto visit thts place ant put myself in vommuntcation with Capt. dames U. Quinn, of the Engineer Corps, and now on detatled service as contracting and disbursing ollleer for the commission, ‘The Captain witl bo pleasantly remembered as the ofieer In charge of tha Chicago arbor Inprovement under Engineer Whevlor, and afterward Sle perintendent of several Western harbor {me provements, ‘Thero having been song chinjges since the orighial comnitssion was ercated”L appomt the present roster: Dre. dent, Gon, Q. A. Gilmore; Gen. Cyrus p, Comstock, Maj. Charles 2. Suter, Unite States Engineers; Capt. J. B, Ends, 1, Louis, Maj, &. M. Marrod, Now Orleans, Trof, Mitehell, Boston, United States Coast Survey; Judge Taylor, Yort Wayne, Tidy Secretary, Lieut. Sinith 5. Leach, United States Engineers, Capt, Quinn ‘has charge of tho improvement proposed nt Plunh Point, aud Lieut. W. L, Mitehell, of the En. gineer Corps, has chargeof the improvemen, at Linke Providence, Llearn that of the $1,000,000 appropriated by Congress about $100,000 will be expended in outfitting preparatory to beginning the work. I was Informed last sumter that the flotilla (for that fs about what it willbe when it gets under way) wasty leave Calro Oct. 1, Lt did not leave then, Lho next date was fixed for Ovt. 10, Still it falled to rendezvous or start. So lm now atone end of the Inet process of teaming why this delay, Cipt. Quinn gives very satisfactory rea sons. He says when the eontracts: were ordered to be let for barges, minehinery, and iron supplles, the commission was coufronted with the fact that, owlng to, the siden ine erense of popnlurity of tho ‘river over tha rallroad route to the seaboard, i was ine possible to buy a single barge. Altogether, for the two “proposed | finprovements, the conmuission will require: thirty or forty barges upon which to irnnapertstone, brush, and other ripraping. This neeessitated contracting for now ones, which contmets were lett Stillwater, Miin., and Pittsburg, And at tho thne the machinery and tron cons tracts were to. be let the price of tron lumped op percent. With moa fortnight after the lettin: of tho Stillwater contracts railroad neces: lies compelled that cluss to offer an advance f 10 por cent on the lumber the comission required, But this was not all. While the work of the commission was being delayed: in tho St. Claly River by floods the’ unpreco. dented drouth along the Upper Ohio operate el to Tnjure it quite as badly, ilere nt Mound City the committee has in preparation an old. double-hnlk snag-boat to be used ns ofliccrs’ headquarters, repalr shops, und commissary depot, wid two or three fargo and comfortan! yearrrinyert guile ter-boats for Inborers, ‘There will be about 00 men employed at each proposed polat, and Capt. Quinn expeets to pay them about $1.25 per day of ten hours and board. The commission hus out and now belug tilted s contract for 4,000 cubic yards of stone ye month at Rose Clare, In iturdiu County, Ii, ‘The work -of outfitting the commission [s now so far advanced that Capt. Guinn Teels confident of leaving here by Nov. f, ‘THN MOUND CITY NATIONAL CEMI Alone inn cemetery closed to tho living Wau tho last syllable of recorded thie—wone in a cemetery whose mlsfortunates will bunt their ceremonts only at the roll-call of the Jast Sergeant—a cemetery filled with tho un. claimed, the unknown soldiers ana sailors of hy last "War, the National Cemetery at Mount City, Hl. Penee, pence, is our feeble benison, A beautiful, well-designed, com- pact city, the poor yet honest. reward of & grateful Governnient. But whut sad mene orles cluster about if. Here are 5226 fae tivon whose modest headstones are slanped the names of 404 solitiers. or saltors, while the other 2,763 glira at you with marble whiteness or bear only tho ane of Georg, or dames, or Chiries, that the poor fellow gave out in his ravings ot agony betoro the final miuster-out. ‘These men wera inainty the first victims of the War, not by wounds, but by lingerlng disease. It WHI be remembered that tho exigencies of the War caused a naval station for the tinclads (ay the old tars nicknamed our first Westery gunbonts) to bo built nt Mound City, and as these bouts came regularly here for supplles and ra thoy nlgo brought the army and: nivy sick to the lmproyised hospital, ‘1hs records have been imperfectly kept, only 1sto numbers, nud many a poor fellow Is mourned a8 lost or killed who iles resting forever more in this Jand-locked haven, On last Decoration-Day, by Invitation of Capt, W. 1, Ilambicton, Dr. N. 1. Casey, and others, of Mound City, and Capt, W.'D, Halliday, of Cairo, the Hon, Emery A. Storrs, of Chileags dellvered the nddress, ‘There were present from Iilinols, Missourl, and Kentucky thous sands of citizens, and overy one L have tk with iniite In saying It was one of the gifted orator’s most pollshed orations, but ulfore unately Jost to the world for tho want ol & cuimpetent reporter., : ‘Tho Mound City National Cometery wat opened officially fn 1864 In 1879, through the personal offorts of Dr, Casey, thons inember of tho General Assembly of the State, aided by thelion, A, M. Jones others, 1 bill was passed appropriating $° 000 for the erection of a monument tar) Ueverldie appointed W. T, Hambleton, 0! Mound cys J. C, Willis, of Metropolls; Dr. W. A. Looney, of Vieuna, Conission, ers. An urehitect by the name of Enierys cd Padueah, Kye Was nivarded tho, contrac Jn June, 1874, the State nnd Federal Govern ments formally dedicated tha cometery, de Hon. John Il, Oberly, of Bloomington, Iiverlng the oration, ‘The monument is cor structed af Georgia granit, is saventy o feet high, ond hag upon the baso of pinth handsome lifesize statues of $0! dler aud sailor, the whole bein; ornament a by tho reguintion Goddess of LJberty. a nanies, or ull that was known of them, W 4 company and regiment, are engraved on on of the panels, ‘The cemetery. 13, by ied Congress, kept In. good conditiou, and. sie some tine has been under tho supe AG tendency of a wounded soldior, Seret. T, . Fitzpatrick, Elghteonth Penusylvanls nd ulry, a quiet, wnobtrustye, but Intell ul miih—a striking contrast to. the parrulous ol Ulta who Keops the Lincolu Move ment at Springfleld, and who exacts a tol 5s ural oun every SNe yes oence for one-legged yeterni Who, out o c thomunmory of that great man, vislts that monument, a COMMERCIALLY BREAKING) iy Mound City ls just recovering from tho d ustrous eilects of the tire that Tay business district not tong nae. It Be six iniles above Catro, an the Ohla, bit ie beautiful, healthy, active town of Sora ple, malnly, however, retainers | of and Grace | tha Grund Dulko Hambleton aie Baron Moyer. Capt, Lill Hambleton | wal the slilpyard where the largest lnke-vss a would be snatched out of the water Mens hoodlum snatches a chub out of Lake alt Jean, and Meyer runs the ataveysac ‘othe grocery, furniture, hardware, and every Gnd er kind of business, buying dn Chieaen ral shipplug staves to Europe, ‘Think et AUlnols krowing tluber to make barrel ne Huss! ale, Culmbacher beer, aud Dublin stor What Mound City needs, however, above a thlugs, is « boulevard or graveled roar Tite the steumboat-landing and Wabash iat Ne nols Central depots out und around the ve onal Cenctory, It isa public necessity ie should be made by actot Congress tise auly National cometory in: the orlelvl gly caret for ’ tes, and should be lovingly ca! Pirociod. Dr, Bull's Cough 8yrup nover fulls, to cure GOVEL OF Col tn wabory tm, rive sd cxuth _f ‘