Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1881, Page 4

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Fo tho boneft of our patrons who desire to sond ainglocopten uf Tite Ttmisn thromah the malt, we give herowith tho translont rate of postazer Foreign and Domeatie, Hiuht, ton, twelve, nnd tuurieen pra pap Bixtoon, oluhteen, nnd twenty paxe paver, Hrwenty-two wid twence-fuar paso pepper: rents eee TRIRUNE BRANCH OFFICES. THE CrieAna TRIOCNE has established branch ‘offices fur the receipt uf aubscripiions and advoriise= mentsas follows: NEW YORK—Koom 3 Tribune Mullding. Ft, Mee ¥annrn, Munagor, GLASGOW, Scotland—Allan’s American News Agen Nentietd-st, LONDUN, Eng—Amorlean Exchange, 49 Strand Msny FP. Gitta, Avent WasUlNUTON, D, C.-I519 F straat, ———— AMUSEMENTS, Maverly's Theatre. Monroe stroet, between Clark and Dearborn. Bn gagement of Haverly's Originat United Mastodon Minstrels, Afternoon and avoning. Grand Opern-Honse. Clark street. opposit new Court-House, Engazo- muent of Milton Nobles, *Inver¢iews; of, right Bo- Wemia.” Afternoun snd avoning. . MoVicker's Theatre. Madison street, between Sinte and Qearborn, Kngagentont of tho Union Square Theatre Company. “Hazel Kirke.” Afternoon and evening. re. rk and La Salle. “Fon on the Bris- Randolph stroet, between Enuaxamont of Jarrott & Ile tl” Afternoon und eventing. Olympic Theatre, Clark street, botweon Lake and Randolph. Kn- gaxomont of Leavitt's Grent Specialty Coropany, Ya- riuty ontertainmont, Afternoon and ovening. Academy of Muste, Linisted street, nont Madison, West Side. Variety. entertainment. Afternvun und orening. Criterlon Thentre. Corner of Sedgwick and Divislon stroots. Varloty entortuinment. Afternoon und evening. Lyccum Theatre. Desplainos street, near Madieon, West Bide, Va- Hoty onterislument. Central Muste-Mall. Southeast corner Randolph and State stroats. Emelto Melville Opors Company, -"attenco.” Atter= uuon sad evening. . SOCIELY MEKLTINGS, “ORIENTAL LODGH, NO. 3, A. F, & A, MmIA Ly a Pela satle-at,, Installation uf unicors, Friday grou ui, ec, Wy 7:0 pe mn CHARLES CATLIN ft WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 298, 1881, ‘Tui seqttel of Mr. Blaine’s retirement from the State Departmentis a series of assaults ‘upon hhn by newspapers of uncertain char- acter and prospects, ‘The object of these at- tacks 1s, of course, very pinin, It is merely to break down Mr. Binine's reputation, so that he may not be an dangerous competitor for the Prestdontial nomination In 18h, ‘The attucks are the highest compliment that could be paid to his standing with the people, and especially with-the Republican party. His cotupetitors virtually confess by attacking him that, in thelr judgmont, if they leave him alone he will be nominated. Wuen Senator Logan drow his arm back to glve Mr. Willinm Penu Nixon a parting blow, he entirely forgot thataccldents might occur hehind him. Quite by chance it hap- pened that he shoved his elbow into tho face of Mr. Frank Gllvert, who was peering ‘over the Sunator’s shoulder to seo the fun, and wags about the most surprised man In the city when his nose ene Into violent contact with the Senator’s arm. It will bo well for all persons concerned to give the Seuntor room when he has a iittle account to settle with uny of his adversaries, : Mn, Sasven J. Tepes Is cunningly mak- Ing his preparations to take advantage of tho reaction which hesees must inevitably follow the arrogant conduct of the high prohibitory wzHE faction. Ina letter tothe managers of tho Atlanta Cotton Exposition Tilden says: ‘The advantages of a superior adaptation of cHunate, soll, and other avontuncous bountios of bature, and of a geographical conttyuity to tho market, are aleitiinate protection to the focal Judusteles founded on the greatest productive ness of human labor In supplying the wants of nun, ANd Upon the Utmost saving In tho co: trunsportation between the producer und sumer, It contrasts with the artificial dovices af legislution, always unskilitul and often per- verted by seltish greed, whleh gonerally have tho aifect of diminishing ‘the productive power of Auman Iabor, Just ag if tho suil were rendered twas fertile, or tho climate less genial, by uct of Congress, In order to enable the deluiled bon ficliry t6 make some profit out of enterprises stherwiso unremuneritive, Mr, ‘Tilden apparently sees no cause to re- gret that New York has been snubbed py the new Speaker, and Pennsylvania given three Alnces on the Ways and Means. Committee, Probably if Uncle Samuel could be consulted bo wouldn't osk anything better than to have the Republtean party committed to the In- sane policy of abolishing tho taxes on whisky and tobaccy and an Increase of the turliT, ‘Tam: appointment of Mr. Willa D, Kelley to be Chalrman of the Ieusy Com- tilttes on Ways ind Means was improper und injudicious, Mr. Kelley 1s not the rep- resentative of tha majority of the Republic- nu party, or of nny party, with reference to the tarlff, He is an avowed extremist, and aulvocates a fiscal polloy, Including the abol- ishing of the taxes on whisky and tobsceo, whieh few tariff man ontsideot Pennsylvania tlestre to seo adapted, Moreover, Mr. Kelley has been conspicuously uisound on the cure rency question, Hie was so much of a fiatist that he retuseil to vote for dames A. Garfield for Spdaker of the Forty-sixth Congress, and east his yote for Hondrick B, Wright, the Communist, of Pennsylvania, This is the imap that Kolfer has seen ft to reward by the appolutinent of Chairman of the ‘moxt tine portant committee in. the Mouse, and the nominal leadership, the duties of whieh, by virtue of his merits us a debater or 9 sa xuclous politician, he could never success: fully diseharge, ‘Tho reat duties of teadur-” ahip will bo fulditted by Liseoek and Kasson where they go the majority of the party in the House will follow, Osx of the worst committee appotntments nado by Mr, Kelfer was that of: Hurry Bingham, of Philadetphin, as Chulrman of the Conuniticy on Post-Offices and Post- Nouads, ingham is the: representative of Jolin Ruach’s district, or one negr at, and his uppolitinent to the head of the Post-Uilleo Commlttos has w deelded significance. By all rulus of courtesy and usage, the commlt- tye should have gone to Cannon, of Iill- sols, who has gervedon th longest, is thore oughly fagnillar with every detail of the business that comes before it, and hus TI CUICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 28, 1881—TEN PAGES. n record of unflinching opposition to | intention of abandoning the “oninority | desire to matntaln their narrow policy by | remanded by the Supramea Court, or a new ttice, whose bush It Ia “ta speed and post | Contral, and says ita local trattic wilt support it all the fobs nnd aubstdles that It {faction which fina not found his services | perpetual tnkertug of the law, have over. | trial oritered, But the prosecuting attornoy | o'er land and ocean” in restloss guardinnalp of is ilkely to considet, Int Cannon was kept off from the committee because ho was too well qualified for it; and Bingham was pit at Its head because he Is known to be a Rentlentnn of easy virtue In respect to sub- sidlos, ns moat of the Pennsylvania Congress- men are, and beeause Speaker Keifer had bought hts election fora price and had to deliver tho goods, Keifer {s Spenker fast enough, but the opinion Is spreading in tha cotntry that he eame ‘most foully’? by the honor, if, under the clreumstances, it can be enlledan honor, The position of Kasson, Tliscoek, Reed, Burrows, Orth, and Diunell, so far as the Speakerahip contest gocs, before tho country is much to be proforred to that of the successful candidate, Mr. Keifer has pald too dearly for his whistle, Nixon must have had the bad appoint ment of ‘Tinothy O, Howe In his mind when be put this sentence Into his leader the other ay: Tho [Acting] President, we bollioye, is anxious to hariionize tho discordant elements of the Re- publican party, but it is ditiionlt to suo bow be cat de this by placing all tue sinows of warfaro In the hunds of the lender of one faction [and it tho minority faction), and refusing to cousider the complaints of tue other. Other people have the same " difficulty” in seeing it, but Nixon knows the influence that irresistibly impelled the Acting Presi- dunt into confereing the great and tmportant oftee of Postmaster-Guneral ona feeble old man who ts wholly unqualified and unfitted for the position, The J.-O. may express Its surprise and dlsgust at such a foolish ap- polnutment, but it is not ignorant of the fact. that Grant and Conkling demanded it, Howe wns 0 sort of henchman and flatterer of them hoth, The following extract from a speech delivered by the new Postmaster-General in Green’ Bay, Oct, 30, 1880, 0 few days before Garfield's election, may throw some ight on the subject: It fa an opon seoret that Gen, Garfield is not tho mun! would bave selected for President. 1 am old-fushtoned enowszh to think that when you ure ubout to chouse a Colef Maglatrate you had better tale your tirst oltizen rather thun your second or your twonty-secoud; and generally, I think, when you favo n trust to confide, espe- olully one sosncred as Is the welfare of 10,000,000 of people, you hud better vontide it tu. one you buve proved, rather than to one you have ‘not proved. 1 therefore thourbt, and f still think, the Chicago Convention cummmitted one of toxe Hlunders tchich {9 first couxin to aertme when it horainateéd Gurfeld instead of Grant for Hresl- dont Look at the date of this speech, On tho ove of tho Presidential election Howe let fly |* this polsoned arru@ at Gen. Garfield. And now he has received his reward, And In this way the Acting President Is “harmonlz- ing”? the Republican ranks! THE BUSINESS OF THE YEAR, ‘Tho annunl business reviews now In course of preparation will show an ulmost unprece- dented prosperity in the trade of this coun- try during the past year, In spite of the largo shrinkage in the valuo of stocks during tho last few months, the shortage of the grain crop, and the varying prices which specula- tlou has given to produce that remains stored up and unsold. ‘The aggregate of exchanges has been‘so Jarge that the rallronds will re- port increased gross earnings notwithstand- Ing the war In rates which ling prevalteu sev- eral months, ‘The increase in ratlroad mile- age lins alrendy been figured up to 7,800 tiles, aud is G00 miles in excess of the rail- road bullding in any previous yenr. ‘Tho record of this tho Inst week of the year prouifses a report of uch grenter activity thon is usual at this season, ‘The showing will undoubtedly be gratifying and of achar Pacter ta nesure a continuation of the same activity aud prosperity In the year to come, At the same time there is ono signiticant fenture of trade which should’ not be over- looked, ‘The imports ara increasing and the exports are decreasing, anda check hos al- ready been noticed in the flow of gold frum Europe to this country. Tholmports at New York City last week were §2,500,000 moro than for the corresponding week one year ago, and the Increase for tho past four weeks Js reported to be $5,200,000, ‘The exports are Jower, but whethor In as Inrge a proportion we are not prepared to say. Even low ocean rates do not attract cargoes; the high prices fixed upon grain ike the shipment thereof unprofitable. Of course ‘this direction of things cannot prevail without redueing the balance in favor of the American market. “A sinall shipment of £50,000 in svecio from England and tho arrlyal of $175,000 shipped some time ago from Ainsterdam are the only speclo movements to record,” says a New York authority In writing of the past week, The reason for the threatening change in foreign balances fs very clear, ‘Che shortage of the Inst Western crop led to an increnso. of prices, which haye also been unnaturally stimulated by speculation. ‘The purchasing markets of Europe, as England, France, Bel- givin, and Holland, hive been ablo ta buy the graln they needed froin Russin, Austra- Ma, Endin, and California cheaper than tney could obtain it from the Atlantle ports of the United States, But when the foreign sale of tho agricultural products of America iycut off or reduced, exportation stops or falls off in exactly that proportion, ‘Tha American market hag no other resource for the forelgn trade, and never can have so long as tho hixh-tarif? polley Is In the ascendant, Ultra-protected manufacturers cater only to n limited hoine trade, They don’t pretend to compete with frea and unpampered manu- Sacturers of other nations. ‘Che purpose of “protection” Js to enable them to chargu home consumers, say, 50 per cent higher prices for the same grade of goods than the forelgn manufacturer charges. ‘They may do this im the home market so long as the tarlif Is arranged to add 50 percent to the cost of the foreign article to American con- summers, but they cannot secure thelr prico in other markets where thelr goods come in competition with non-protectod Koods, Auerlen raises the cotton and the wool, but It cannot sell the high-protected, dear fabrics abroad, Wecnn prottice the hides chenper than they ure produced elsewhere, butthe protected manufactured articles In leather cannot be sold abrond In competition with non-protected articies, We have tho iron and coul, but cannot mate and sell steel abrond at 50 por cont more than England or Belgium ask for thelr ste! Onur native woods ate abundant and varied, but we can- Hot hope toobtain half as much agin for them when made up into furniture, utensils, and ornaments as foreign and competing Manufacturers charge, If domestic prospere Ity shall lead np, as It always does, to Ine crensed importation, and our exports shall fall below the imports, leaving the balance aginst us justend of In our favor, the pro- fective system will account for the change and the embarrassiments that ure sure to ful low. ‘Tie disappolnted oMleesveker-of the Inter Occur has been tinking a Jabored ¢tfort to convitce hls readers that ‘Tux ‘Pmpunn has beon Juduced by considerations of business rivalry to eritielss the Impertlnent attempt of Mr. Nixon, {is munuger, to folst hluself Upon the ofice of Collector, So long as the Inter-Ocean shall be controlled by a mere oficeseeker It will ba depemlent upon face tion and bo prostituted to the spolls system, dn such an event thers is certainly uo danger Chg It cun ever become a rival of, Tue ‘Tin us, Which ls conducted pyon a business basis, und hag fixed and Independent political convictions, Ju a -spasin of auger the other day, Nixon oylneed ao brief autliciontly valuable to warratit a reward. But Nixon hardly realized that he had de- elared his soul was his own before he began to tremble and recant. If tho InterOccan showed any disposition te cut lvose from henchman servitude, and were sincerely In- clined to print a newspaper in the public in- terest, Tuk Trpuxe would be glad to en- courage stich a reformation, and would seck occasion ta help te along ina business way. But Tum Trisunr, as an exponent of public opinion, cannot always pass unno- teed i shaniecless indliference to public welfare and palpable violation of Journalistic ethics in order to coddie a weakling that hing nelther the ambition nor the honesty to make Its own way In the world It would ba as ridicutous tor the firm of Marshall Fleld & Co. to entertain a sentl- ment of rivalry toward n little retail notion storeon Milwaukee avenue as it would be for Tus ‘Trimune to dread the competition ofany newspaper which periodically needs tobe “snatehed from tho Jaws of destruc: tion” by the nutriment of an ofllee, But Morshall Field & Co. would very naturally eritielye n dry-goods concern which brought disgrace upon the trade either by failing to pay for tho goods it bought or by going around ng an mendieant begeing contribu- tlous to keep It niive, For very much the sane reasons Tue ‘Krinusk lings bind oc: easion to despise tha existence in this clty of @ newspaper which panders to the spoils face tlon and actually participates in the scramble for public plunder, Such nm concern isa disgrace to the profeasinn and to the city. ———————EEEe THE DAY AFIER, In this world of folly thera {s very Ittle mioralizing before the fact. One plunges into foulishness withont thinking, reserving that mental process until the day after, and tho process is rarely as pleasant as the foulish- ess; on the other hand, if thore had been as much thinking before as after the foolish- ness, thero would have been no occasion for any regrets at all. Itis a commun observa: tion of the victim that if he had known as inuch before as after his folly he never would have had anything to do whh it, and yet whon the opportunity occurs of repenting tho folly he plunges In again with no regard to tho warnings of past experience and with no apparent increase of knowledge gatoud from {ts jessons, ‘These general observations apply to Christ- mas—not to the day Itself, but to tho manner of Its celebration, so far as the celebration af- fects the pocket. ‘Thery is probably more in- judicious, headlong, profitiess purchasing during Chiristuuns week thin during all the other weeks of the yenr combined. People who buy only useful articles, and buy with an oye tuservice and economy, at other tines, will rash in during the Christinns season and purelnase all sorts of uscless articles at ridie- ulous prices, and ‘the day after will wonder why they bought them and wasted thelr money. Apparently they are tempted be- yond the power of resistance by tho dazaling displays made by tradesmen; and there muat also be a certain sort of contagion in the spectacle of the streats crowded with people eager to purchase something that takes the ordinarily prudent buyer off his fect and be- foro’he 1s aware.Jands him in front of a coune ter Jonded down with absurd kuickknoacks, Hoe finds Liinself Ina wilderness of Christ- inas stufl Intended for gifts, Iie has given the matter no thought and doesn’t know what he wants, In his bewilderment he selects articles of no earthly use and pays for them five tintes what they would cost the day after, and proudly takes home a big parcel of things which make a goodly show ona Christmas-tree, and the day after tke their inevitable route to the cellar, or the attic, or the kitchen stove, In thts absurd manor millons of dollars have been fung-away In Chicago during the past week, largely by people who could not afford ft, ‘Take the matter of Christmas ecards alone. ‘They are intended to bo tho messengers of youd witl and good wishes to {rlends, That was thelr orlginal purpose, aud at tho outset thoy were plaln, pretty, aud cheap. Fashion, however, hus dictated an Ine crease in alze, style, and expense, year by year, wntll It has. become quite a serious tax to supply one’s friends with the com- pllmonty of the season, even in a slnple manner, and tho ludicrous and ridiculous eult of thesa modern days has flooded the market with grotesque monstrosities, rep- resenting nothing in the heavens, or on tho earth, or under the carth. Fashion also having seized upon these caricatures, they were purchased In large numbers, and today tho buyers’ are probably wondering what they saw in them that was beautiful, and wishing that they had purchnsed something simple and‘pretty, In neatly every other dl- tection the same folly hns been practiced, Tho useful has been sacriliced to the useless, and children have been so surtelted with useless things that thoy tre of them even the duy after. Gifts have come to be of no value or curiosity to them except for a day's won- der, and then thoy are thrown aside, Luxury has been ko squandered upon them that they have lost appreelation of common and useful things, and ithay now become 4 problem how to satisfy the cravings of n child with o moderate purse, or how to find anything that it will nottlreof the dnyatter, It is tha gencral rule that tho chtld 1s aurfeited and half-sick with sweetinents, and surfeited and entirely sick of the toys and knickknacks, and the indulgent parent has thrown away Ais monoy on nothings and Is sicker than the child of Christinas and all its observances. ‘Yo hava written this before Christmas would have been heresy, 1t may be written the day after aud may serve asa warning to be unheeded at another Christmas, Nothing Is niore pleasant than the giving of gifts on this memorable anniversary, nothing more appropriate, but let the gifts be selocted with discrimination, as they won't be, ant with soine regard to tholr usefulness, which will not be done. ‘Tho buying of presents merely to give something or for the sake of buying 1s the poorest kind of Ohristinas econ amy anda waste of money, and confers no real favor upon the reciplent, One eift wisoly chosen ls worth more than a wholo treo full of useless knickknacks; but tho foollsh gifts purchased at two or three prices will be presented next year precisely as was done this and Inat year, There will never be any retorin, Tux Supreme Conrt hye during the last few years been called upon to decide ques tons artslng under our’ extraurdinary tarlit Inws, and theso deelslons have Invariably averrufed the furious dumands of the pro- tectlonists. In the same way the ‘Ireasury Department has been compelled to make due elslons and in the same direction, ‘These de- cisions coult hardly bo otherwlse, ‘Phe pro- tection gentry mnatst that the * principle” of the turlif legislation of the country Is to do- terand prohibit, Importation, and that, as Congressman MoKlutey put tt, protection ta the object und revenue the Incident of tariit taxation, Hence, In all thelr conventions, aud speeches, and publications, thege people de hounce the Supreme Court and the ‘Treasury: Department, and denund that in the revised tariff It shall by provided in some way that horuafter ali revenue laws shall be construed by the courts us always exacting the bighest duties. A recent decision by the Supreme Court Indicates how these. tarliemongers, in tueir reacheil themselves. Certain persons line ported, while Mr. Arthur was Collector of New York, 800 bar of phuinvage in a French vessel from Ceylon. ‘Tho importers insisted that the goods wero free, and tho custom-house peupte calmer that they were subject to 10 per cent duty becnuso imported In a forcigi vessel. In tho act of 1964, ns woll na in all provious and subsequont acts, it has been provided that there shall by levied nid collected on alt goods, ete, the growth or produce of Lie countries enst of the Cape of Goud Tope, when Imported ina forelgn vessel, an addl- tlonnl and discriminating duty of 10 percent, In the ‘Taril act of 1873 plumbuga was put upon the free list, ‘The question was, whether the diseriminat- Ing duty of 10 per cont could be Imposed on an article named on the Hstof goods admlt- ted free of duty, and the Supreme Court de- elded. that it could nut be, No duty could lawfully be collected on plumbago, or any of tho other articles named in tho freo list of the tarlif of 1872, whether imported in Amer- fean or foreign vessels, Mere ty another out- rage, ‘Ihe Supreme Court has In this in- stance struck the. frotective policy In two points, It strikus down the duty on plum baxo, and also strikes down the dlserimina- tion agamat foreign vessels, The vessels of every land may come here londed down with pluinbaxo, and deliver their cargo on a per- feet equality with any of Mr, Joly Roach’s miinnmoth steamers, 4 ls It not thne that something be done to protect Amorican pliumbige? . Deposits of It are to be found in Mussnchusetts, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, aud various other States, The use of plumbnago In the manus facture of Inbricating substances has greatly inereased the demand for the article, and large quantities of it are now Imported trom Canada. Down In Pennsylvania there was a gentleman who owned a nickel mine, and Mr. Kelley promptly had nickel aud utckel- ware protected, first by a duty of 10 per cent, but subsequently by a duty of 30 cents pound, and also had welkel adopted as the metal for minor colnage. Why not protect plumbago as well ag nickel? ‘The owners of the American slate quarries in Vermont have the slate puneils they produce protected by a tax of 40 per cent. Why not protect Amerlean plunbago? As itis, one “infant industry” Is teft to Janguish and perlsh for want of sustenance, while the more success- ful Industry ot slate pencils is able to point to the prosperity of the Nation, and especial- ly to the high rates of Inbor wages, ns evi- denee of the resulls of protecting schuol stutes und slate pencils by tho gorgeous bounty of a 40 percent tax! * INSTRUCTING THE JORY. WHICH I8 THE JUDGE OF THE LAW. ? ‘Tho statutes of Mlinols provide that “ tho Court, iu instructing the Jury, shall only In- struct as to the Inw of the ense,” and that “the Instructions shall be reduced to writ- ing.” ‘The effect of tho first provision has been to muke tho instructions In crinlnat cases tu # great extent the stutement of abe stract principles of Inw, the meaning of which Is totully incomprehensible to the ay- erage fznorant juror, and tho application of which to tho facts fy not clear to anybody, ‘Tho effect of the secund provision has becn to make the Judges mero automatons to exe press cho Jaw as iald down to them by oppos- ing counsel, The practice of tho: Ilinols Judges has been to volunteer no Instructlons of their own in erlininul causes, and te refuse none legally sound when asked by the attorneys on elther side, While It iy a rule of the common Inw that abstract principles of law should not be stated to the jury, the statutes and practice under the deelslons of the Sue preme Court muke ‘It necessary that, the In- structions tn this Stute should be exclusively composed of such abstract principles, For, it hag been deetded that the Judge may not Instruct the Jury as to the application of tho law to tho fucta, but only as to what the law iy nbstructly, ‘There is another anomaly in our practice which makes ft supremely ridiculous and absurd. ‘Tho statutes make the Jury “tho Judge of the Inw and the facts”; and Judgo Breese gave this lw the widest meaning and applileation in ndeelsion from which the fol- Jowing extract fs talcens Bac. 189 of tho Criminal Codo teclaros in tho most polnted und cmplittle Jasin that Juries hall inull cuses be Judges of the law and tho fact, ‘This power is conferred tn tna most une qualified terms, and has no lint woleh we ean assiau to it. Hetug Judges of the law and tho Tuut, they are not bound by tho Iuw us given thom by the Court, but cin assume tho respon sibility of deciding, each Jurer for bimaelf, whut. the Inw le, If thoy are prepured to"sny the law ig different from what it (a dvelured to bo by the Court, they have u porfect right to gay so, und fina ‘verdict according to thelr own notions of ne taw, ‘Tho Supreme Court afterwards attempted feobly to qualify this ridiculous and unten- able position by approving the following In- struction given by a lower court In a criml- nal case: It is tho duty of iho Jury to accept and act upon the lw aalud down by the Cuurt, unless thoy ont aay typon thelr outha thit they srg bat~ ter Judges of tho law than tho Court; and if they enw sly upon thelr outba that they. are better Judges of tho law than the Court, thon they uro ut liberty to so act. All this nonsense about “oaths” has nothing to do with any law, and is not a mat- ter of practice, It must be mortifying to every luwyer of sense in the State that our Supreme Court should ever have subserlbed tovlther of these absurd doctrines, the more statement of which Is calculated to give the bar In other States no very exalted notlon of the learning or actinen of our Supreme-Court. Judges. ‘Tho fact {s that Jurors are not re- quired to take oath that they know moro taw than the Court, and they do deelde the Jaw In many cases about as they plonse, ‘Tho absurdity of the praciice cunsists In having the Court give any Instructions to the jury, since the fatter aro the sole judges of the law, Why should this body of twelve wise men, having intuitive knowledge of the law, require any Informutlon as to what the Jaw is? Can tho object of the system of in- atruotlons be mercly to glve the attoriey for the defense un oxtra chaneo to except? ‘The instructions are seldom cousulted tn the jury. room. ‘Tho jury ars usually Unable tu make any progress until they agreo to throw tha instructions under the table, ‘Then why should the Judge be regilred to alya any Sue structions, and why, having given them, should they be alleged for error? ‘Thero 1s another stup necessary to com- plete the folly uf the crimfual procedure In this respect, While the lower court Judge may not instruct tho jury as to the facts— and the jury Is the sole judge of the law and the facts—the Supreme Court may upset the verdlet on the Jaw, or the facts, or a mixture of both, or on the exceptions tuken to the ins stractions of the Judge below, which the jury were at ilverty to disregard, ‘The de- fendant ls given every chance, All the cards are stacked fur his acquittal, He may get tho Judge. to dustruct Hberally In his favor— the prosecuting attorney hag no redress or appeal, Ia may get the Jury to disrexurd the Instructions against lin, Still there ts no sppeal He may havea new trial if he fs found guilty contrary to the law and the evi. dence, But he may not be twice tried if the verdict is in his favor, Mf any error is committed In all the tortuous proceed: ings in the court below; it the Judge nods, orseems to nod, or If the jury belleve tho Judge waa nodding when he was not, the defendant may havo bis case reversed and must fight single-handed against tho stupidi- thes of Courts and juries, and the anroging absurdilics of tho Inw, and the glosses put upon It by the Supreme Court, and one false stop 1s fatal to hint What wonter Is It that Iawyors of charne- ter and learning have fately beon known to ask, “When was acrkninal of wealth and social position over convicted in Cook County?” Is it tho fact that no man of wealth ean bo convicted of crimo in this county aud sent. to the ponitentiary so long as his money shalt hold out? Hayo the “suecessful crtm- {nal Inwyera’? who make the laws in the Legislature and the “eminent crlusinal law yers” who {uterpret them from the Su- preme Bench brought the administration of eriminnl justice In this county into such low contempt? ‘These are questions which the peoplo will be called upon to answer at ench successive election for State and judietal oMeers until the whole criminal procedure §s reformed. ‘The Inws which were con- structed to meet the wants of a sparsely set- fled Stato of 150,000 Inhabitants are no longer adequate tothe necessitles of the fourth State of tha Union, containing a population 0f 3,500,000 souls, THE PAPAL WHINE. A dispatch from Rome, printed in our Monday's Issue, under dato of Dee, 2%, says: The Popetoduy gave tho customary Christ- ive recaption to the Card nuls, of whom three wero in attendance, including the Cardinal Mohenlohc., In roply to thoir adtiress, the Pope suid bis position was becom~ ing inore and more Intuterable. When be cluimed the temporal power in order to secure the indo. peaioned, of spiritual power, he was accused of wl A rebel und wn eneiny to Italy. Catholics who demanded effictent guarintees for the tree dom for the head of thoir Chiroh were simiturly stlymutized, and pilyrinis to lore were tusulied y thy press und populace, It was, thorefore, only nutiral that Ulshops comiug to Rome should consider the oxisting situation Inconipate ible with the dignity of tho Huly 8ee. His Hall- ness ald he expected far mora severe pereecn- thon in the time to come, but he would endeavor to gulde the bark of Peter through tho troubled it, looking torwurd to tho. moment when Gud would calm the tempert. The sentiments advanced as above by tha Pope In his sycech to the Cardinals aro only the echoes of similar sentiments which he has expressed upon many vccasions since Italy becaine 2 natton and Rome its Capital. Ifthe truth were really known, it might be found that many of his own spiritual ad- herents, who are better nequainted swith the workd than he, and who realize that hia pre- tentions te temporal power aro not only Im- posstble of fultiliment but ridiculous, are coming to regard this’ stereotyped whine as tedious, If the Pope ts honest in the assertions made In hig speech, and really believes what he says, Why docs he stay in Rome, harassing the Italian people and keeping them in con- stant political confusion by his efforts to form ullramontane allinuces among tho Catholic Powers of Europe, with no other purpose than to crash out Italian nationality, wrest the Capital of the Itallan people froin them, and turn over the temporal power into the hunds of priests, whose ambition it Is to assume the ftnetions of Ciesar In the faco of the commands of Christ to render unto Cwsar the things that are Ciesars? It Is a conspiracy which ean never be organized; if it were organized It could over be carried through to success. France has becomes Republic and fs no longer dumlnated by Ultramontanising on the other laud, Ultra- montanism is hell in check by the strong hand of the republican government and made to observe its proper relation to the Stute, Spain is today about halé republican and Portugal likewise. Austria, whatever her disposition may be, 13 !n no condition to dictate the disruption of the Ltallan Govern- ment or to assist fn it, Germany and En- gland would oppose it with resistiess force, It is the wildest fantom that everselzed the mind of the Pope, if ho imagines that he can re- verse the engine of modern progress, or put. brakes upon the speed with which the nine- teenth century is traveling away from tho dugmatic conservatism of the Papacy. It he dova not porculve that the Pavacy can never again secure Its hold upon the temporal power, thon it must be that ho: has willfully eloged his eyes to It and Is keeping up a fie- tlon, trying to deceive hisnself and his fol- lowers with Ht. It has been said of Leo X11 that he is a man well acqualnted with tho world, possessing 1 unustal degree of good sense, and accustomed to take his positions not from projudice, but after rixid self-ex- amination, If thls be sv, then ho is only shaming, with the expectation of arousing sympathy, for no clear-minded, thinking man could fail to recognize that nothing ts left of the Papal pretension to temporal power, In this country no one sympathizes with the Pope's absurd politica! demand, or would ever consent to grant what he clalms— namely: the restoration of a polltien! priv- Hege which was noyer inherent In the spir- Itunl functions, but was from the firet a usurped power, oxcopt the Irish Ultramon- tunes, and thelr sympathy, ins only exposed them to ridicule. With tholr customary In- consistency, the very men who would help tocrush out the nationality of tho Italian people are crying vut for the ‘Independ- ence” of Ireland and howling against tho political control of the English Government. ‘The whine of Leo XILL, that “he has no liberty, and {sa prisoner In the Vatican,” is ridiculous nonsense, ‘Lhe only Mborty de- aled hint Is the polltieal despotism over a part of the Italian nation, with which he has ne more concern than the Greek Pope or the Arohbishop of Canterbury, The Italian peo- ple bellove that they are able to administer thelr own political government. ‘They don't want two Kings; even If they did, thay don’t want Pope Leo for one of them. ‘They reo ognize his spiritual functions, and they have not been unfaithful In thelr allegiance, when the spiritual powers were unmixed with the temporal. ‘They aro willing.to render unto God the things thut’are God’s, but unto Cesar the things that ara Cosar’s, If Leo XILL enannot bo satisted with this evon dis- tripution of alteciance, then he ought to leave Italy, and harass It no longer,.or dis- turb the world with unseemly whine, —e—X—XK—X—XK—K—X—_ Socratisst is bitterly opposed in theory by the English, aud yot no other peuple bave put ao muuiy of ite Ideas inte practice intholr laws, Al good Hterary stetement of what bua been done in this way is made vy Mr, Mortey in his Lite at Colnton Just saved, Coldon opposed with all his force tho ‘Ten Hours bill, as socialistic In that {t was an exertion of the power of the Btate in its strongest furin, delluitly Hating in the inter> est of the Inboror the administration of capital. Thus the act of 1844 was only a rudiwontary step in this direction, In 1847 the Ten House bill be- came Jaw. In the thirty years tat followed, weye Morley, tho principle has been extended with astonishing perseverance, Bogland bas to- duy 6 complete, mluute, and volutinous code for the protectiva of workmouy buildings must be kept pure Of clluvia; dangerous mavbinery must bo fenced; childrgn and yuung persons inust. not clean it while in motion; their hours are not only limited but fed; continuous om. ployment must not excecd a giveu number of hours varying with tho trade, but preseribed by. the law in given cuses; aslatutubls number of holidays is Imposcd; the children nuit go to weboul, and the employer must overy week buvo 8 certificate to thay offect; if an aceldent happend notice imtst be sent to the proper authorities; spucial provisious ure mado tor bukebousus, for lucemuking, for coll- ferivs, und for 4 whole peuedulo of other special callings. For the duo euforcement and vigilant supervision of this immense host of minute prescripuons, there fs an immense host of in- every kind of labor, from that of tho won who plalts straw at hor cottage door to the miner who deseonde into the earth, and tho soumic who convoys tho fruits and materials of unt- veréal industry to and fro botwoen the remotest parts of the globo. All this fs one of the lurgost ‘branches uf what tho most importunnte Soutallsts have boon acustomed todomand, and if wo nid to this vat fabric of labor lugistation tho tHritish systems of Poor law, wo find the rathor amazing result that in a country whoro Soctallsin bas beon foss talked about thun in any other country In Burope its principles bavo beon imuat oxten= alyoly applicd. ——— Goy, St. Joun, of Kansas (Neal-Dowwito), declares that bls -Probibitory Liquor Inw fe a perfect success, and that thy wholv Stato Is as dry aso powder-horn; ond, no walter bow thirsty the follows may be, thero ia nota drop todriuk for love or moncy. On the etbor bund, wo have his extraordinary procimuntion offer- ing large rewards for tho conviction of officers who neglect thoir duty in enforcing courcive tectolalism, with tho statement of ex-Goy. obl- inson and of tho leading Journals of Kansas that the law fs n fallure, atid is promoting Intem- perance and disrespect of law generally, ‘Tho Jowa State Register publivhes tho subjuiued ex- tract from a business letter received by the ed- {tor from a citizen In Kansas in regurd to tho practical results of the Probibitory Liquor law in that Sinto, The editor of the Reylster vouched for the writer of the letter na one whont he per- sonally knows to ho an honest man, a careful observer, and a aincero friend of temperance”? urrany, Kas, Dee, 21—Frequent commont 1s made outside of the State upon our frnous Nytor luws, und a difference of opinion seus to exist, all widely tt varlanes, The netton of Goy. St. John in tho mutter fs suilicignt evidence that the law la defective and finpracticabie. Ho bay caused a law to be made tur the Improves ment of tha morals of hts puople that ton kroater immorality than the origiual vicoy and ty render tho law iu 8 measure eifective his fs- sued procluinutions, offering tewards for pore jury, und ineltive bis neighbor's haud ayainst Ww nelghbur, ‘ats Lam sorry to suy Je the whole cugo Ine nutaiell, Tho veoply rugird the law as an infringement: upon person hberty, und he who never tovk a art ne botore bas taken a draw in deilauce of the new law, Those who would occasionally only take 0 glaga of wine or beer order throush tho express company the keg or“ Hittle brows Jug” sent to thule humes. ‘The workingman piys 6 cents to tha pbysiciun and 76 cents tu the deuygist, and ets nis pint of whisky, Well-known business: ten and personal friends puss thelr Husks bold> Jy to tho druggist—ono visit to the physician be- ing suilcient—or keep a keg ou tap where It ‘was never kept before, “The books of the transportation company show more Iquur consumed at this place sivce the now luw tin evor befuro during thu sane thine, and 1 believe the same state of fuota ex: fata nll over tho State, The druyists and medi clie-men are reuping the visible profits, Who tre tho losers? —<————————— Sreaxixa of stock kiting and gambling, “Guth” thus describes tho succosa of ono of the operators in worthless und watered stocks slnco the business boom act in: Tho most avtive person in sustaining the mar- ot wus Wourlshovter, the sinart Gorman broker and operator, who wade bis success loro by buying, two or threa yeirs nyo, tho broken-down god spiritices bonds dnd stocks in the Western Territoriva, Ho wus able tu show bls backers in Germany that the American people, belug nat- urally gumbiers, would quickly respond to a movement by these dverepit stocks. ‘They fur- nighed bim with monvy, aid be picked up bonds At ono-third thelr face and stock ut two ur three cents on tho dollar, ‘Tho rise in everything tal lowed, and Woerishoefur und his principals made some millionsof money. It gave blin uw status un the street, and be becume the bollest general Operator on the market. Sr. Guuld was at the Uine gunstructing considerable rillroud, and at buoyant spirit like Wourishuvfer wits useful to hiw aud to the murket. Fur muro thun a year tho speculative principle here was stim- uluted by impurtations of wold from Europe which went iuto tnyostinent, and of course nia circulation, aud a urge part of this money ifut- tored around Wall streot to be lent on cull, first blow lo a buoyunt market was the stoppuge of this furetyn money, Lt nud all stony been prodioted thut wuon the extraordinary aupplies ‘of cush ceased thore would huve to be a revislun of the stock st. Tho largo operators, nko Gould, also saw that, with # glutted market, whero almost everybody was atratd to sell short, and yet fow would buy, some positive decline or ndvauco was necessary. Gould, it {s guid, touk this view, und attacked Deuver & Rlo Grande stock, of which be bud taken $1,00,0W in pledge tor a loan to dr, Woerlstorfer, who was tue rep. sentative of that rutiroad on tho street, “tt tesaid that Gould offered Woerlshoofer’s stock In the markot, and that Woerlshoufer bastily raised tho $1,000,000, und rushed buck to get his stock, but found it wes out forthe momont. Mountiine thut loan bad cost him a good deal of money, ay tho stock bad deullucd iu the nolgbboriucd of Utteen points, a. Tut Hon A. 8. Hewitt, M. C., of Now York, in a letter to tho Hrentny Post, anys: What I bopo to secure by the pugsige of tho DULL bnve lutroduced fs the immediate suspen- slon of the coinage of sliver dollars, which tho publiy do not want and will not take. A correspondent replica: ‘Thore have been 103 millions of allver dollars colned, 00} per cent of which are held and owned by “tho public,” 31,000,000 In culn and 08,000,000 Inn "Preusury certitfo.tes—the coin being held for thetr redemiption a8 required by the uct of Fob, 23, 1878, Hewitt says; ‘Thousunds of nbdle-budiod mon aro cneaged In, dig- fi atlver ore, tn ainalting tke muta), wid, tn culnliie ni It Into sliver dollars, which ure nt onc consigned to safua whore thoy ur oFo bofore it wna mine ‘This morning 25,000 silver dollars wera askod for in oxehange for gold coin, whined request was deolined at the Sub-Troasury with thls ox- planation: é We havo not 25,0" silver dollars that wo can inw- fully putin elreulation, If wa lub you have the silver dollars you will draw silver cortiticnies, hud we bave hu silver cortiticuws to doliver, except as wo have witver dollars on hund for an equul amount, As shore js much want of infurmution on tho * Daddy " doilar question, the following la froin tho uct of 1878: Sro. 3. ‘That any holder of tho cain quthorized by this act may depostt the sume with tho ‘Erensurer or any Assistant ‘Trowmurur of tha Unitud States tn UNIS TOL lows than 14, aud receive therefor Curtin. cates Of Hot less than #10 onch, corresponding with the denominations of the Unied states nutes, ‘ihe culm depusitod tur ar represansliw to curuifentus shall bo rotninud in the ‘rousury for th paymunt of the saute un demand, Bald cortiltaces ebull bo ro- cotvauiy for customs, taxes, wid ull publly dues, nid, Sop ae Focotvad, may bu'rolssued. Avprorad bub, iia usuluas as wan the original 1, smia)tud, and coined, rr AconnrsronpeN? calls attention to tho defense in the Guiteau caso as mudo by the nus cused and by his counsel. Tho counsol say the man fa insanu; was Insane before the nssugina- ton, at the time of nsansinution, and 14 now; whilo Gulteau claims that ho was insane on tho 2d of July, and for sixty days bofore that dato; that he {8 porfectly sane now; and that while in- sane ho wie inspired by the Dolty to commit tho murder; snd that, bavtug done the doed by Di- vino Inspiration, ho Is not responsible, Thy ine spiration dofenso is not urged by Scoyille or Reed, but Gultonu ts permitted by them to plead it in ble owa Lebalf, bis perfurmances boing: used also to sustuln the plea of Insunity cover- tug tho porlod of assnainudon and continuing to the present time. Guitenu ts really posing ns an Insane mau; all bis talk, all his blackguard- fain, all his ruiflunism of speech, aro so much labor performed by bim to muintaln the theory ‘of bis counse) that be fs ingune, Guitenu, thero- foro, has a dillcult part to sustuln the defenso, and that ho dos his share of tho defense ably, thoroughly, and untiringly, aven to the extent of overdulng It, must be readily admitted, et Tuer have been terrible storms on the Atlantio betwoen Nov. 20 and Deo, 15; many ocean ateainors ran'‘narrow escapes of destruc tion, Some were crippled and put back into port, and acvoral have not yet beon heard from, Tho Now York Zritune of the Mth saya; Tho probability of the loss of threo Atiantlo Btounsbips, tho City of London, the Heory Eye, aud tho Lord Byron, Increases vvery duy. ‘Thu City of London, bolongmy to the. Centaur Line, sulled from London ou Nov, 13, and his notucen heard frow since gbhe got outof the Counnel Tho Henry Edye left Autwerp for Boston on Noy, 31, abd wu last seen passing St. Catherino's Point tue samo day, ‘The Lord Byron, frum Hawburg, is now out since Noy, 2. ‘Neither vousel curried passengers. ‘Thrue weeks would be w fulr allowance for u freight steamers pare sugo in bad weather such as bus provalled of lute on the North Atluntic, Onv of thesu vessels ine beon ont over four and two left port tive weeks aie Sorluus apprehensions may well be folt for wir sufery. EvipENTLY from the way Nixon {s craw fishing, bo intends to mako another lunge for an olive. Me is about inthe condition of the boy aftor the woodchuvk, who sald the funily wasout of moat, and he bud yot to catch the “chuck,” ‘Tho report around towo yesterday was, that Nix intondato “go for” the Venslun Ayeucy, and crowd out the soldier's daughter. He says ho bas the three, Cook County members backing ho in whatever bo wants, ae they uro anxious to havo bim stup bla blubbering. —— Ex-Gov, LELAND Stanyorp In a Now York Juterview thinks tho Southern ‘Pacitia Hullroad ty gotng to bo a great benatlt to Cull- fornia, {n opening a short line for the sbipment ot hor wheat to Europe by way of New Urleaus, ana in developing w market for her ugricujtural products in the mialng regions of Arizons. Ho apart trom tho bulky freight whieh will week water earefage at Now Orlenns and Galveston, and which now goes round Capo Horn teonuse {tennnot afford the long rail Journey to New York. A grent Inerensy tn. tho agricultural tne dustry of tho Pactilo const {6 predicted ug ong op the resulta of tho new rond. It ts romarkatin that, with tho great fortility of her soll aud tho beauty of her climate, the Stato has only 100,09) inhabitants enguwed tn tiling the land, Keurciyy of lubor fs auld to bo the cause. and this {9 ny doubt dug in great part to the distance froin the East and the oxpenso of tho journey, ——$—<$—————— SMALLEY telegraphs érom Londonin Terard to tho professional Leanty, the “deravy Lily," that “Thy success of Mra, Lanitry's début pros vokes an outburst of profeaslunal Jealousy, Core tain actresses resout the appliuse bestowed ong meré amateur, aud complain still more: bitterly: of hor Immediate engagement ut tho Naymare ket, whore It is reported she recolves 8500 week. ly—whleb Is more than twice the bighest existe {ngaulary, Feetlo echuet of this Juslousy Ape pear tn print, but the great mujority of tho crits ieal and general public continue to express cone Ndonce that Mra. Lungtey huss brillant dramatic future, Bhe ts expected to appear at tho oud of dautury In Roburteun's ‘Ours. " ——————___— ‘Tne poor Uttlo fool, Nixon, professes to think that ‘THe Trmose’s disilke of the ie deapleabte type of “Stalwartism" ts caused by business Jealousy and rivairyt Tho mere. ine crenae of ‘Tite ‘Tamunn's dally clroulatton withs in a fow years excoeds the Briny Deep's whole edition, “ Husiness rivalry "—that'a decidedly good! ———— ‘Tu: Inter-Occan ta not, since Mr. Wiliam, Poun Nixon falled to yet the ofllee he bad picked out for bimeclf, ag Stalwart as it was; and it weeps vo profusely that THe Tremnuse calls {¢ “tho Briay Deep." —Cinetnnutt Commercial, ——————- LAKESIDE MUSINGS. ” A new law in’ Kansas forbids marriagg within six months after divorce, It is believed thut this law wae passed fur tho bonellt of ine eine peuple. Mr, Nixon Is evidently determined thatie the public doesn’t know a spanting bee has been in progress it shalt not be for want of howting on, ‘the purt of the boy. “TL notice that’ the Chinese. Government has eatublished u bunk with a cash cupltal of 82,00)« 000, Which Is the shortest route frow New Jersoy to Chinn?" —Cashier satdwin, “What is this talk about Queen Victorla, wishing tu marry the Princess Buitriee to sume distinguished American? My- address is Cra. mercy Squire, New York."—S, J, Pitden, A good pickle for meat is made by taking three pounds of sult, ono ounce of sultpeter, three-quartors of a pound of brown sugar, and two galions of cold water. Beef will bo auilicieut- ly cured if tt rematus jn this solution for teg daya.—Cart Schurz. To a recent visitor, n young beginner in literature, Mr. Henry W. Longfollow said: “Ale ways write your best."—New York Tribune, it is wrong for Henry to talk that way toa young author, He should telt bin to xo easy at first, and eclipse the olacr ones gradually. “Senator Logan seems to have made a two-base bit." —Ex- Treasurer Gilbert. Ah, friend, the good old customs are wanlng fust away, - Who waars a sprig of onk-bough now to honor Charite's day? * ; ¢ Neglected ail the mad-cap rites of jolly tat loween, And scarce # loyal courtlor loft to greet tho for May Queen. Weil, lot thom wano, my brother, as wano they must and will— At leust thoro’s one old festival that has ite honor still; At lenst there's ono old mreeting whoso musta stlil ts deur— “A merry, morry Christmas, and a happy, bright Now-Your." Susy B. Anthony. a PERSONALS. — Mr. Horaco Gray, the newly-appolnted Jus tleo of tho Supreme Court, Is more thun six foct pet and fs stout In proportion. Hu Is a bacher r On Jan, 18 next Bishop Howe, aged 74, will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of bis ordina: tlon to the m{nistry of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Reading, Pa... and will bo presented with u hatidsome pastoral stat. Mr. Longfellow's wife was a daughter of Abbott Lawrence, one of tho richvet merchants In Boston, Sho lost hor ilfe by a frightful accis dent. Whito mukiuz somo Christmas toys for her children, and using svallug-wex and a cin dic, hor dress caught Ure and enc was fatally burned. . Minister Yoshida and his wife will not, i fa suld, remain permanontty In Japan. ‘They will feave Washington next week, and expect to ree turn some time next year. Mme. Yoshida is dee seribod us nt deifente Mttto woman, who looks more fie a schval-girl than the devoted mother of four children. Bishop Plerce, of the Methodist Episcopal Churebh South, says that he thinks dancing tho allliest und most nunsensical amusement that rational beinga, so-called, over engaged In. Ho wleo sys that it bud its origin fn heathonisnt being pastiine of suvazes; tbat It fa lewd, gona, wud obscene, appetling to the lower Insilnet's of humanity, and boing the cbosen fport of the ¥: gud most imoruted of the human rico. Charles Sumner fs quoted by Mr, C, IL Brainard, iy the Washington Star, us auying of Mr. Wendell Phillips’ conversation that It was fall of humorous and witty gayings, nd they sometlines crap out in his speeches,” Sumuct added, * but they noyer do tn mine, Did you ovur deo it Joke in one of my speccnes?” Mr Brainard confessod tht ho never bud seen O10. “OF courao you nover did,” suid Sumner, Yor might ng weillook for a Joke in tha book af Kov> olutions.”” ‘Tho widow of Mark Hopkins recently pur- chused two piintings belonging to tha David Leavitt California estate, of Groat Barrington, in Borksbire County. David Tonvitt was for many years President of tho old American Ex- change Bank of Now York. The order glyon 10 Loutzo for ano of the pletures bid a Hult of $10,000, Thay were both historical—one reprer sonting " Wushington ut the Battio of Muge mouthy’ and the other Washington at Valley Forge.” ‘Thoy ure very hires canvases, aa have great merit ag historical pulatines. “ Lord Rowton," writes the editor of the London Lruth, “possesses great discretion aud tot, and to thigas much ug to bie vbility wus duo Lord Benconstietd’s friendship for bln, as shown by an acoldent that buppened in tho Primo BMiniator’s household, Ono night Lord Rowton returned late froin the House of Com mons, where be had been in attendance on hls patron, Groping bis way Into tho dinalng-reums ho throw himself ontoa soft, for hu was tired out, Porbupa ho immediately fell tato a balf- doze, or possibly ho wns absorbed in Intercstity thoughts; at alf evonts, ho uid not hear thy light footstopa witch might have warned Blin of Lut} Houconstield's appronch. Presently he wus seus’: ble of 0 kiss on the torebend, alight tup on, the obeek, and a" Woll, deur?” softly spokun. Lor Howtan is probably the only mun who was ever mistaken for Lord fencunstield. CAPTURED COWBOYS. Itecently Itulded The Gang Which Caldwoll, Kan, Caught tho Kuda Perritory, wiih the Aid of tho Natives Npectal Dispatch to The Cnicago tribunce Wicmta, Kas. Deo, 22—A gentleman who hog Just arrived in this olty from Caldwell ro- Dorts that & speolal messeugor bad just arrive in that clty with news from Sborlif Taralls, whe og been In the Indian Torrttory iu pursult a the vowboys who ralded Culdvoll und killed Maj. Mougher, - ‘fhe teeing’ cowboys bad beew arrested by Indian scouts and turned aver to Sherif Thrall, and he ty now on his way t Wellington with them. Tho Bhorit requested tho vltizens of Cutdwoll to send bi alu, as be feured tho othor cowboys in tha Tercl tory would uttack him and — rescue tho prisonors, Upon bearing the news a lurid number of cowvoys in Culdwell purenased & fresh tot of ammunition ans lit out for the Ter ritory, 1f the citizens of Caldwell get pusscesiod of the prisoners they will lynch them without coremony, as the fooling is very strong axuinst them, Bheritf Thralla ie in danger from bold sides, us tno cowboys in tho ‘Torritory will 1? doubt attempt a roscuo, white the Caidwell cills xons will try and got possceslon of the prisuverd soavenge the rald. Among the prisoners hel by Sherif Thratls ts Comanche Bill, .¢ ono they a celebrated indian souut under Cusier, but now a cowluy iu every denevol the word, Comuned) Bul ts. u brave mgu, but bag beon cause In dai company, wad it be falls into the banus of spectors, curtisylng surqeons, aud other author: | dove not reward the Southera asa rival tothe , Caldwell citizens bo will awing with the seal