The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1873, Page 6

r NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hamar. » THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the war, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price 612. Volume XXXVIII.... = 1 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and Fourth ay.—One Huxpaep Yxans Oxo. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth sireet,—Brotnsn Sam. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth @venue,—Tickst or Leave Man. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 51¢ Broadway.—Tux Paro Rama oF Cuicaco. OLYMPIC and Bleocke! [EATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third a cep Miccauanponen Avs ScuOExBLnG, THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston F atreets,—ALHAMBRA. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burraro Birt—Stace Sravcx YaNExe. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—AUxE, WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Kix, tue ARKANSAS Travxtige. Aiternoon and Evening. ATHENEUM, No. 68 Broadway.—Gnanv Vanrery En- TRRTAINMENT, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince an Mouston streets.—Lxo anv Lotos. . MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Love's Sacrirics. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— ‘Unctm Tom's Canin. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner ay.—Nzcro Minstrensy, Eccentricity, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘ARUBTY ENTERTAINMENT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 23th st. and Broadway.—E7Hioriax Minstaxtsy, &c. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and éth ay.—Brn txw's Beapinas. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— fcrencer AND Art. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, Feb. 2, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE AUGUSTAN AGE OF MURDER! TWENTY- TWO WOMEN KILLED IN THREE YEARS" — LEADING EDITORIAL THEME—SIXTH PaGE. TERRIBLE STORM AT ASPINWALL! THREE LIVES SACRIFICED! SEVEN VESSELS DAMAGED AND SUNK! THE PACIFIC MAIL WHARF, THE ENGINES AND SOME MER- CHANDISE DESTROYED—SEvVENTH Page. MOBILIER DISCREDIT! JUDGE POLAND TRIM- MING UP THE TRUNK OF THE BODY POLITIC! THAT DISAGREEABLE $1,200 IN- CUBUS UPON THE INTEGRITY OF THE VICE_PRESIDENT! AMES TO BE MET FACE TO FACE! RIGHTEOUS ACTION OF THE PHILADELPHIA CITY COURT—Tarep Pace. ‘WEATHER REPORTS AND PROBABILITIES—PER- SONAL PARAGRAPHS—LATE TELEGRAMS— SEVENTH PaGE. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! AN IMPOR- TANT TURKISH PROBLEM! THE PORTU- GUESE GOVERNMENT INTERFERES IN A RAILWAY STRIKE AND COMPELS THE . STRIKERS TO RESUME WORK! A BATTLE IN SPAIN! REPORTED DEFEAT OF THE ROYAL TROOPS! PROBABLE DISTURB ANCES NEAR PRAGUE—SEVENTH PaGE. THE DISAGREEING TWEED JURY! THEIR STA- TUS ON THE CASE, MIXED VERDICT AND CONFLICTING ASSERTIONS! THE DINNER! WHO WERE ON THE JURY?!—Tentn Page. WEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY! THE AGITA- TION AC{AINST POLYGAMY! OPPONENTS OF THE SYSTEM CONFERRING WITH THE PRESIDENT! YOUNG'S ANARCHICAL RULE! THE JAPANESE FUND! REWARDS FOR HEROISM—SEvENTH PaGs. , BY CABLE FROM THE WEST INDIES! AN ELEC- TION RIOT IN PORT AU PRINCE! CABLE COMMUNICATION INTERRUPTED BETWEEN DOMINICA AND MATINIQUE—SgvENTH Pag. THE KANSAS SENATORIAL WAR! YORK VS. POMEROY! A TERRIBLE DENUNCIATION OF THE LATTER BY MR. YORK! THE SECRET BARGAIN AND WHY IT WAS MADE! ‘POMEROY’S EXPLANATION—Tuimp Paas. ARGUMENTS UPON THE STOKES BILL OF EX- CEPTIONS! A RETKIAL MOVED! SUIT TO RECOVER $40,000 FROM THE CITY ON THE BROADWAY WIDENING! THE STOLEN POUGHKEEPSIE BONDS RETURNED TO THE INSURANCE COMPANY! RECORDER HACKETT ON THE LOTTERY LAWS—Fourta Paar. SAMANA, THE NEW SEAT OF EMPIRE! THE TYBEE AND HER CARGO—OBITUARY— THIRD Pags. “THE MONEY RATE, SEVEN COIN TO FIVE PER CENT CURRENCY, WITH AN EASIER RULING | THE OFFICIAL NOTICE OF THE SYNDICATE FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THE REMAINING FIVE PER CENTS! GOLD DECLINES! IMPORTS! THE BANK STATE- MENT UNFAVORABLE! STOCKS BUOY- ANT—Firta Page. * THE PASTURS AND SUBJECTS FOR TO-DAY IN THE VARIOUS SANCTUARIES! CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY AND AMONG THE VA- RIOUS DENOMINATIONS—Fovrtn Pags. RECAPITULATION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT—THE PROGRESS TOWARD THE ACCOMPLISH- MENT OF THE RAPID TRANSIS DESIDER- ATUM—MARITIME NEWS—Tentu Pace. In tae Tweep Case Yesterpar Judge Davis decided against opening the second trial in the present term of the Court, having some doubts as to the legality of one term overlapping the other. Mr. Peckham, for the prosecution, confined himself to stating that ‘the would move for trial when he was ready. ‘We are sorry to find that the settlement of this scandalous case is again placed among the un- certainties, and can only hope that the delay before bringing the accused once more to the bar of justice will not be a long one, Tae Cantisr Insvrnecrion against the King of the Spaniards appears to be carried on with considerable vigor. The movement has pro- duced a serious interruption of the mail, rail- way and telegraphic communication with France, French reports speak of some severe fighting between insurgents and royalists, with a claim of victory for the Bourbonists, Tue Question or THE Svccesstox To THE Warone or Tunxey is likely to give rise toa very serious agitation in the East and in Eu- rope at an early day, as will be scen by our sfelegram from Constantinople, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. The Augustan Age of Murder—Twenty- two Women Killed in Three Year? Several weeks ago we ventured toassert that, although but one woman had perpetrated murder in this city during three years, her sex was really the cause of the one hundred and forty-one murders committed in that time. The correctness of our assertion may be drawn from a survey of the following enchanting panorama, unfolded for the benefit of those who honestly believe woman to be bullied, kicked, stabbed, shot and knocked out of ex- istence without any natural means of self- defence. Sentimentalists call woman weak, and appeal to the chivalry of man to protect her against wrong. Let sentimentalists gaze and confess their lack of judgment. 1870.--It begins with the murder of Anna Almeyo by George Bauman. Separated from ‘a worthless, dranken husband, the woman teaches in Bauman’s private German school, until the master teaches her to love him better than principle, and the old, old story ends in bloodshed. Who else’ but the woman should be blamed for this tragedy? The month of February records the shooting by her husband of Margaret Sheridan, aged thirty-one years ; and July tells us how Mary Nelson, aged thirty, is beaten to death by the man who had sworn before God to love and protect her. In September Mary Von Harestadt, aged twenty- five years, is shot by William Marsh. In No- vember Ellen Currick is killed while being po- litely thrown down basement steps by either George Woodruff, Edward Jackson or Robert: Carey. It really matters little which man does it, for a verdict of ‘‘served her right’’ ought in any case to be rendered, and doubt thrown upon the deed exonerates the doers. Ifa woman persists in being a woman she must take tle consequences ; and when three men in their weakness attack her in her strength the case should be quietly dismissed, and the sportive lambs allowed to roam at will. This is justice. This is the way to preserve life. The year 1871 tells a still more cheerful tale. It begins merrily with the murder of Margaret Jones by her husband, whose infidelities had led to such unwarrantable expostulations on the wife’s part as to force Jones to indulge in manly castigation, for which he was once sent to a neighboring and secluded island. Itisa bourn, however, from which all Joneses soon return, and this particular Jones celebrates his restoration to wife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by becominga confirmed drunk- ard. Onthe day in which ‘the carves ina way that all admire,” the brave soul imbibes twelve times before succeeding in obtaining an appetite for breakfast. Upon attempting to go out, with perhapsa view to ridding the earth of some sober man, the valorous Jones is dissuaded by his wife, who promises to brew punch’ in reward for as unexampled self-sacrifice as was ever recorded in the history of crime, While the faithful wife stands at the cupboard busily engaged in compounding that for which Jones’ throat thirsts, the spectacle becomes too touching for Jones’ tender eyes. Approaching Margaret from behind Jones seizes a carving knife, plunges it into Margaret’s groin; then, fold- ing his arms like an Arab, carefully steals away, and to-day lives to tell of hairbreadth "scapes by wife and knife. ‘Where is he?’’ ask the police, and they will echo ‘‘Where?”’ It is enough to know that Margaret Jones dies in half an hour, as every wife should who tries to keep her drunken husband at home. If she prevents his murdering strangers in the street she must expect to reap the consequences of her folly. Women never will learn to mind their own business. Eve seta most pernicious example. Husbands are always persecuted, and when on the Ist of April—a most appro- priate day for practical joking—‘‘Annie Bowe, aged forty, dies of compression of the brain from violence at the hands of her hus- band,” we feel as cordially toward the injured man as Simmons’ friends when they rush into Court to grasp him warmly by the hand qnd to give his righteous cause the benefit of their moral support. Perhaps, how- ever, we sympathize more sincerely with the husband of Margaret J. Rudd, who sends his young wife to her long home, by a new route recently opened, and now quite extensively used by men of Rudd's calibre. This route is quite a short one. All that is requiredto become 4 passenger is an open third story window. One gentle push and a woman is launched into eternity before she knows it. Could any death be kinder? Really Rudd, as the founder of a new school of husbands, has incurred the world’s everlasting gratitude. What jury would convict so great a benefac- tor? Is not his wife addicted to drunken- ness, and does she not fall out of the window? When women have no husbands it is incum- bent on some male friend to act in that capa- city, as does James McGanley, who violently disposes of Agnes Reilley in the torrid month of August. Occasionally there are men wild enough to commit suicide merely because of having murdered their wives. Two such sentimental cases occur in 1871. The first is one strangely misnamed Felix Dorsey, a carman, blessed with five children and delirium tremens. In the presence of his family this infelicitous Felix sharpens a knife, makes a lunge at his sober wife and kills her, in spite of her two sons, whose hands are badly cut in attempting to save their mother. Felix commits suicide on the same day. This isa wanton waste of life, for every properly educated person knows that intemperance, to a far greater extent than charity, covers a multitude of sins, Ifa man will only take the precaution to get drunk he may sharpen any number of knives on his wife's throat, or kill innumerable Putnams with equally innumerable car-hooks. The second instance of suicide is that of the Ger- man, Stierman, who, because he smooths out his young wife’s skull with oa hand-iron—was ever o hand-iron put to nobler use?—dies by his own hand. We are appalled when we think in what contempt these two abject creatures are held by the temporary residents of Murderers’ Row. Who smooths out the skull of the unknown woman found in the North River on November 25 nobody will tell; but as nobody cares the honor of the law is upheld by burying the body in oblivion. So ends the year 1871. The Spring of 1872 dawns upon us cheer- fully with the murder of an English girl, Mary Ann Gallagher, aged twenty-three. Patrick Clifford returns from his Winter residence at Sing Sing to quarrel with his paramour. He mangles her so fearfully with his peels as to stamp her life out, for which dance of death Clifford is sent up the river for two years! When Clifford ‘is again restored to the world other Mary Ann Gallaghers will undoubtedly appeal to his heart and heels, for what are two years at Sing Sing compared with the satis- faction of breaking one of God’s com- mandments? So thinks William Dun- nigan, who, on the Ilth of June, knocks his wife from one world into another. But so just is justice that when there is palliation for murder its punishment is swift and long. Take for example the case of Emil Andrie, who, on June 13, shoots his wife, Andrie, a Frenchman, returns from a smallpox hospital to find that his best friend has proved his loyalty by stealing his wife's affections, The infatuated woman refuses to return to her husband, will neither sign a separation nor surrender her children, and Andrie, pursuing her into the street, shoots her dead. When men, drunk or otherwise, dispose of innocent women, married or other- wise, they either escape to parts unknown or are patted on the back by amiable jurics. Andrie is sentenced to a term in State Prison, but we feel morally certain that Cobb will re- ceive better treatment. In July Thomas Cobb returns home drunk, finds his wife drunk, knocks her over the stove and fractures her skull with an axe handle. He makes a little trip up the river, but New York cannot spare him long. Axe handles long to feel his kindly grip. Then, by way of variety, there is nothing like combining intemperance with insanity. Mark Flanagan, a discharged lunatic, drinks to excess, then, taking a Bible from a con- venient shelf on his knees, delivers himself of prayer, reads a portion of Scripture, arises, seizes his wife by the hair of her head and stabs her with a shoemaker’s knife. What a pleasantry it isto be sure! But more absurd is the case of Patrick Leary. Leary is out of harm's way in aainsane asylum. His wife, believing him nearly cured, is allowed to take him home for a few days, during which time, without any premonition or previous quarrel, Leary attacks his wife, and kills her in the presence of her daughter. ‘‘A clear case of insanity,” say the jury, and there the matter ends. Of course the authorities of luna- tic asylums are justified in allowing wives to remove their husbands whenever affection dictates, and, of course, two instances of mur- der by liberated maniacs prove how admirably our asylums are managed. Resuming the sane tenor of our way, we behold John Goery throwing a stone at Margaret Fritz, aged four years, thereby breaking her tender head; Joseph Dykes kicking his aged mother to death, and Robert P. Bleakley deliberately shooting his young niece, Maud Merrill, be- cause, as the injured uncle declares, sho would not abandon her sid career. The evi- dence shows that Bleakley was in the habit of visiting his niece and threatening to have the house “‘pulled”’ if she refused to give him money in payment of an alleged debt ; but no impartial jury will credit this evidence, and we expect to chronicle Bleakley’s acquittal. If we congratulate him in advance who will grudge us the satisfaction? A mother, while insane, strangles her daughter, and with this final case of murder we find that 1870 boasts of murdering six women, 1871 rejoices in the killing of seven women and 1872 glories in disposing of nine women. We speak jubi- lantly because were it not a blessing to be rid of women the law would visit greater punish- ment upon their murderers. The increase of victims @is a natural consequence of the law’s leniency, and were we a woman desirous of throwing off this mortal coil we should marry @ passionate man with intemperate habit, feeling confident that it would be impossible for him to long resist the temptation to shed innocent blood. If the law will only continue its present benevolent reign there will be some chance of establishing a sexual equilibrium. There are too many women in old communi- ties, and the surest way to cut the Gordian knot is to cut their throats. ‘‘Amen!"’ whisper law and juries. Jencken and Jenkins. The latest victim of the London Jenkins, as we find from the London Times, is a Bencher of the Middle Temple, who rejoices in the har- monious name of Henry Diedrich Jencken. The occasion is the marriage of the barrister to Kate Fox, of table-tipping celebrity. . The phrase spirituelle, as applied to a bride, is no novelty to Jenkins ; but here was a positively spiritual bride! With a charming union of ornithological and zoological forces, a Doctor Bird gave away Miss Fox. It has been usual, also, for Jenkins to say that a bride had not a rappee toher dowry. But on this occasion, when the Rev. Mr. Braithwaite pronounced that the Fox had become a Jencken, audible raps from the spirit domains told the awe- stricken guests that the other world waseither astonished, displeased or delighted ; because, in the absence of information as to what the raps meant, the guests could take their choice of the three characteristics. Jenkins further informs us that at the wed- ding breakfast in Portman square fresh raps mingled with the pop of the champagne corks, and the tables tipped without aid of restive waiters or bibulous guests. Moreover, the huge wedding cake was palpably raised from its base of confectionery, and, for a mo- ment, threatened to bob through the ceiling, to the intense disgust of romantic maidens, who expected to invite dreams with some of the precious plums and suet beneath their dyspepsia-encrowned bolsters. But the incident particularly interesting to New Yorkers was the appearance among thé rappers of the late James B. Taylor, best known in his lifetime as a lobbyist in Albany and Washington, and whose contested will is one of the causes célébres in our Surrogate’s Court. That the spirit of this deceased gen- tleman is hovering around the domains of Gog and Magog is perhaps the reason why he has never in this city appeared in spirit form be- side the tables of the new Court House to rap out a succinct explanation why his will, that was missed for months, became finally discov- ered in an odd volume of a book by Tom Ben- ton, and why he especially failed to acquaint a world of gossip in his native city whether or not his will was a forgery. The whole account affords much room for commiseration with Jencken, the bridegroom. What a brave fellow he must be to marry Kate Fox! Usually bride, or a wife, can only threaten a husband with the terrors of a mother-in-law, but here was a bride who had the whole world of spirits at her command, wherewith to rap him into obedience, No fox- hunter ever had a worse prospect before bim when the hounds were loading the way across a country of ploughed ground, stone walls and five-barred fences. Let all bachelors pray for the repose of barrister Joncken. ~ Religion Among the Worldly. Worldliness in the Church furnishes the preacher with his favorite philippi: and the cynic with his finest sarcasm. Ever since the early Christians debased the Lord's Supper into @ coarse love-feast sensuality and fashion have lurked behind the pillars of the sanc- tuary, and conscienceless Mammon has sought to monopolize every prie-diew. But is it not wholesome and practical to turn for a while from the contemplation of so old a theme to the consideration of one at least as interesting and not quite so stalo? If it is true that the Church teems with worldliness, let us inquire, on the other hand, whether any religion is found among the worldly, and if so, how much and of what quality. Do spiritual facts never impinge upon the society-woman’s con- sciousness? Doega breath from a diviner world never blow across her life's gilded aridity? Do the shadow of the Cross and the reflection of the Passion mever fall through the enervating sunlight of society success? Are none of the religious impulses of the age responded to in the hearts of those whose field is the drawing room and whose ambition is limited by a fash- ionable coterie? - . For our part, we suspect that there is a good deal of religion among the worldly—religion, notin the sense of belief in definite creeds and the shaping of one’s life to accord with one’s con- victions, but religion, in the broader sense—of habitual interest in spiritual questions, thought- ful curiosity with regard to the ultimate des- tiny of man and the condition of a futnre existence. We have almost as many churches as drug stores and nearly as many clergymen as apothecaries; and the result is that some of us get spiritually poisoned by too blind a con- fidence in the integrity with which our theo- logical prescriptions are prepared. The pain that ensues has the admirable effect of putting others upon their guard; and among many of our fashionable churches may doubtless be found the girl and the woman of society who ponder spiritual things in their hearts and evolve an independent religion of their own at the moment when their neighbors give them credit for debating the latest style in bonnets or the newest caprice of etiquette. The re- ligion of the worldly, perhaps, leads to no very valuable result. Its influence is negative and prevents their becoming quite so worth- less as they might otherwise grow. They are not the sort of believers who go rejoicing to the stake and comfort themselves in affliction with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. But, possibly, they are just as far from that lapidescent stage of the heart in which church- going is only a form and words of worship a vain repetition. They pay Providence the compliment of thinking of Him with rev- erence and speculating with honesty about the mysteries of life. Sniffing fashion up with one nostril, they sometimes get a whiff of genuine, piety through the other. Life is to them like a double- yolked egg; they break it open, find God and Mammon ’nclosed in the same shell, and, feeling it impossible to choose between them, eagerly open their mouths to both. But the religion of the worldly man is certainly prefer- able to the worldliness of the devout. It at least claims our respect for its honesty, though its weakness may attract our pity. The eclec- ticism of the man of the world who reverences personal piety and spasmodically tries to protect it is one of his most ingenuous traits. On Saturday evening you observe him at “Leo and Lotos;” on Sunday morning St. Alban’s church witnesses his genuflec- tions. He scarcely scruples to attend an opéra bouffe ball, and acknowledges to being fascinated by Mr. Frothingham and the Religion of Humanity. Between his diamonds and his divinity it were hard for him to choose. He fluctuates between the “Acts of the Apostles’’ and the ‘Letters of Lord Chester- field,’’ and when he repeats the laws of etiquette he thinks he has said the Decalogue. You suspect he would have to pause before de- ciding whether the Apostle Peter or Beau Brammel wore the greater man, and had Count d'Orsay and the beloved Disciple been contemporaneous with him we may feel sure he would have cultivated both. He might shave his head to-morrow for right ’ sake, but that would not prevent is baying an invisible wig the day after. A Frenchman’s View of America. We cannot see why the American colony in Paris or Americans at home should be in a flutter about what the irrepressible Sardou may say of them. Most of the tribe of French litlerateurs and play writers to which he be- longs manufacture sensation without any regard to facts or common sense. He knows little of the world outside of Paris, probably, and less of the United States than any other country. Ignorance is bliss, in tact, to such sensation mongers, for they can draw with more ease upon their imagination. When Sardou says, ‘This is a country of traffic—everything is ticketed with its price, even the honor of women,” it does not hurt anybody or make our estimable country- women less respected at home or among those abroad whose opinion is of any value. It only recoils upon the libeller. It is said Sardou lias agreed to expunge this and other objec- tionable passages in ‘‘L’Oncle Sam” under the pressure of the government censor at Paris. Could anything be more distressing to this inventive genius, particularly as he may lose some francs by having the choice bits of sensation thaf suit the Parisian taste cut out of his play? Pomeroy Asks a Suspension or JupGMENT in letter he has sent to a local newspaper, and promises to make an explanation. Well, that is fair; no one should be condemned un- heard. But why wait so long? The state- ment to the Kansas Legislature by one of the Senators that Pomeroy gave bim a bribe for his vote is either true or false, and the answer could be given promptly. The Legislature evidently thought it was true, and the demand for time to make an elaborate explanation looks suspicious. As Mr. Pomeroy is a pious man, and he be guilty, the best course for him to take is to make an honest confession, plead the general demoralization of his fel- low Congressmen in extenuation and pray for forgiveness. Then let him retire from public life forever, punish himself, like good Christian, by this act of political hari-kari, and set an example to other delinquent Con- gtessmen, Ae Il Louls Napoleon’s Dying Words, The last words of distinguished men have ever excited popular curiosity.’ Historians often satisfied this at the suspected expense of veracity. Fow dying words have been in- terestingly epigrammatic, Thoy all serve to show, however, what earthly topic is the latest one photographed upon the brain. To this extent thoy gratify the students of psy- chology. ‘ Cardinal Beaufort exclaimed for his last living speech, and remarkable as the key to his character, “What! is.there no bribing death?”’ The expiring words of Hampden were, “O Lord, save my country ;'’ of Queen Bess, ‘All my possessions for a moment of time;’’ of Charles, the Merry Monarch, ‘Don’t let Nelly starve ;’’ of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, ‘I’m shot if I don’t believe I'm dying ;’’ of Commodore Lawrence, “Don’t give up the ship;" of Lord Nelson, “Kiss me, Hardy ;’’ of John Adams, ‘‘In- dependence forever ;'’ of the philosopher Hobbes, “I’m taking o fearful leap in the dark ;’’ of Washington, “It is well;” of Horace Greeley, ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth ;”” and of the First Napoleon, ‘‘Téte d’armée,”’ If an account of the death-bed scenes around Louis Napoleon be correctly reported in the London Figaro, the exiled Emperor never spoke after thus addressing Dr. Conneau:— ‘‘Btier-vous @ Sedan?’ (Were you at Sedan?) The expiring imperialist was undoubtedly re- calling those five hours of agony which elapsed while he was in the saddle just before his dramatic surrender. The physical exposure there proved the forerunner of the dreaded climax to his malady; and in his heart he knew that, although his material death might be in such presence of the civilized world as telegraphic bulletins could summon, his death as matter of history occurred in the presence of Kaiser William. If the dying exile did address those words to Dr. Conneau the sight of this friend and medical adviser must have kindled reminis- cences of the chiteauat Ham. This physician it was who aided the escape of the prisoner of Thiers when Minister of Louis Philippe. Taking advantage of extensive repairs to the prison, Dr. Conneau bought in the village an artisan’s suit, and some dye with which to stain the fugitives hands and face so that their cleanliness might not invite detection. How the imprisoned Prince walked out of the fortress with his plank on his shoulder; how he purposely dropped his pipe before one sen- tinel and stooped to pick it up, and thus hid his features; how he compassed his plank whenever he met prison company, he has graphically described in a letter known to all newspaper readers. _, But not so well understood are the aids which this Dr. Conneau invented in order that time might pass until Ostend could be reached and the fugitive attain asylum ona British packet. The Doctor delivered a letter from the Prince to the Governor that pleaded illness and requested a day of strict repose. He dressed a lay figure, turned it upon its side in bed and skilfully adjusted the coverlets, After a few hours the commandant came by, and Dr. Damon detained him with excuses for his friend Pythias. Upon the next visit an opiate had been given to the motionless dummy. But when evening arrived the flight became a fact, and, after a few days of deten- tion, the ingenious Doctor followed his pa- tient to the hospitalities of D'’Orsay and Bles- sington. One may be very sure that Dr. Conneau, as at Ham and St. Cloud, was present at the surrender—that third act of the Napoleonic drama—and as he stood on the stage when the curtain went down upon this tag of the epilogue, ‘‘Etiez-vous @ Sedan?” The Fashions. Though Paris lacks a Court, imperial or royal, she remains Empress of fashion. Her tact and skill dictate what the world shall wear, and what shall not, only seem, but be beautiful. Her decrees for the i months of Winter show a decided inclination to bring back the historical styles of the close of the last century, including high heels, scanty skirts, tall headdresses, paysanne fichus and large buttons of .steel and pearl. Elaborate embroideries are used in orna- menting evening dresses, mixed with chenille in most effective patterns. A tunic of pale green Sicillienne bears upright lines of moss rosebuds in bril- liant tints, the leaves of chenille, witha fringe of same all round matching the material. The boddice is low, forming a waistcoat in front, sleeves to the elbow 2 ta Duchesse, A bouil- lonne of white tulle, &tudded with rosebuds, heads a chenille berthe. Black and white lace mixed are very stylish in trimming ball dresses, as five flounces, alternately of white and black, with the two laces edging a small tablier upon a dress of apricot faille, black and white edge of lace on the revers. Flowers are used in great profusion, arranged in small bouquets, studding the dress all over and not grouped in wreaths. Very long polonaises, in which white and black insertion lace alter- nate, or white lace and black ribbon velvet, are much admired... A strong, light, twilled silk, called “‘levantine,” is much tsed for tunics, bodices, fich neckties, &c. Black levantine bodices, embroidered in silk and chenille, are made without basques and worn with a sash, the embroidery ornamenting the revers and sleeves in patterns of wild flowers, violets and corn flowers. Some wear above these a small open, sleeveless jacket of black velvet. The Rabagas hat still holds the field, but is not destined to a long reign. Bonnets are very high, the crowns soft, much trimmed with flowers, laces and feathers, with streamers of ribbons, lace and depending flowers at the back. Most fashionable bonnets have a mixture of colors, as marine blue, sky blue and flame color, all on one bonnet. The hair is soon to take the shape of 1830, reliev- ing the back of the neck of chignon and all other projection, and arranged at the top in a high coque. In full dress the Spanish comb is almost exclusively worn, with a pyramid of curls and very small headdress of flowers, Tae Postic Dest Srarement, issued yester- day by the Treasury Department, shows an increase of $406,243 for the month of January, the result, as is explained, of heavy disburse- ments for pensions, and on account of other expenses incidental to this season of the year. This is the second month the national debt has shown an increase, Why is this the case? Has Mr. Boutwell lost his zeal, now that he is about to resign the Treasury portfolio? os Spiritual Scintiliations and Crambs ef Consolation from Our Religious Contemporaries. % Our religious contemporaries this week are rather more than usually interesting. They discuss a variety of current topics, and, in the absence of any other particularly striking feature of the day, touch upon the Orédit Mo- bilier investigations—a dish, however, that is beginning to pall the public appetite. The Christian Union lets a little light into the Mobilier temptation and fall. In de- scribing the Crédit Mobilier concern it says :— An old Pennsylvania charter was cheaply bought ; its name, “Fiscal Agency, changed to “Crédit Mobilier of America.” This revi a like another Noah’s ark, was haule ‘alonguide of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and into it, straightway, got all the principal members of the Traulroad company, and @ nice voyage they have made of it! What happened’ Why, as there was buts difference of name between Crédit Mobilier and Union Pacific, as the same men managed both, and sut to-day as Union Pacific and to-morrow as Crédit Mobilier, the issue was, that the gentlemen entrusted with the management of the Union Pacific road made a bargain with themselves to build the road for about twice the actual cost and pocketed the profits, which have been estimated at about thirty million dollars! The Union might have added that the sum of one hundred dollars is alleged still to be due at the office of the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania for the enrolment tax on the aforesaid “Fiscal Agency.” If such be the case, is it not a question whether any of the transactions under that charter'are legal and valid? The Union says that Senator Wilson and Speaker Blaine seem, by general consent, to have come out of the ordeal unscathed; “but the rest,” it continues, ‘present a more Pitiable plight than was ever before seen in the history of the American Congress,"’ or any other Congress, it might have said. ‘The Independent discourses upon the subject of “gubernatorial pardons,”’ and, after an analysis of certain statistics, arrives at the conclusion that sentence to imprisonment for life becomes a legal sham if the actual term in such cases is but six or seven years, and if about half of the whole number of such sem- tences is set aside by gubernatorial clemency. ‘While we are contriving remedies to secure greater certainty of just conviction,"’ says the Independent, it is necessary also to secure a greater certainty that the convicted will suffer the proper award of law. The abuse of the pardoning power is a crime against society.’’ The Independent thinks that ‘any honest man, with properly developed wisdom-teeth, should have been very shy of Oakes Ames’’ when Congressmen began to jingle the enormous dividends of the Crédit Mo- bilier in their pockets. The number of Congressmen, then, who do not seem to’ have cut their wisdom-teeth must be extremely large. Congress can no longer, therefore, be regarded ad tha “congregated wisdom’ of the nation.» It is pretty evident, however, that sev- eral Congressmen have, to use the familiar phrase of smartness, ‘“‘cut their eye-teeth.’” The Baptist Weekly also touches on the sub- ject of gubernatorial pardons, andis of opinion that “too often District Attorneys, contesting with counsel for the defence, forgetting that they, as servants of the State, owe thought to a citizen accused of crime, are anxious for a victory in forensic forray, and labor for a con- viction more than for justice. The men who pronounce a verdict ought to be ‘swift ta hear’ but ‘low to speak,’ when liberty, and perhaps life itself, depends on their utter- ance.’ The Weekly comes to the relief of the poor brother who, by a recent fire, lost a ‘hun- dred sermons which had never been preached, and was hauled over the coals for keeping so* many homilies in pickle, and avers that ‘there are just a few things, like a good plum pud- ding and a mince pie, for instance, that im- prove with a little age. And there area few good old sermons in almost every minister's ‘herring box,’ but the bulk of them deserve to be burned. We (it is the Rev. Dr. Patton who is speaking) made a bonfire of about two hundred of these articles a few years ago, and, being dry, they burned brilliantly, giving more light than we had any thought of being in them.’ The Liberal Christian regards the Crédit Mobilier as an unworthy and improper finan. cial trick, and submits that the ‘‘worst feature of the investigation is the unmanly and gar- bled testimony of many of the accused. It has done more to encourage extravagant and unfounded suspicions than any other one thing. If they had had the manliness and wisdom to tell the whole truth from the very beginning . of the investigation the country would not now be go full of distrust and slander of our public men.” The Evangelist bids ‘‘a hearty godspeed to the project for putting an end to the East African slave trade and planting a new Liberia of converted natives and released captives on the East African Coast. This is the plan which Dr. Livingstone recommends, and the expe- rience of the West Coast shows that it is at least feasible. It will be one great step tow- ards the regeneration of that dark Continent, so long neglected and almost unknown.’’ The Golden Age moralizes on the defeat of Alexander H. Stephens, the penalty of vio- lated law, Horace Greeley’s Christinn fath, Miss Faithfull’s reception and other mat- ters, and regards the liberal movement as vindicated in the recent disclosures of cor- ruption at Washington. The Catholic Review continues its series of remarkable papers on the case of Louise La- teare, who bears the stigmata of the Sacred Passion, and who, on every Friday, is in that condition known to theologians as ‘‘ecstatic.’” The case is regarded as one of the marvels of the age. The Christian Leader preaches a very pleas- ant sermon on the text ‘Cheerfulness is a Duty.” The writer must have seen the rep- resentation of the ‘‘Centenarian.”” The Observer is eloquent and emphatic upon the “Use of Punishment.’ It affirms that “gociety must assert itself,”’ and continues: — The conviction is taking strong hold of the public mind that the makers und execnters of law have ceased to be adequate to the pretection of society. It will indeed be an awful state ef things when the people, in their original sovereignty, discard tie forms and ministers of law and take Baked justice into their own strong hands, And here comes @ remarM@ble prediction from such ao law-abiding source: — We venture to predict that in ten years or lesa from this time, if the Tweeds and Connollys, the Garveys and Re sers, the Stokeses and Fosters, the Scannels and are suffered to escape the penalties of law, lety will push the codes aside and visit thieves and murderers with swift punish- ments, sure as fate and just as the judgments of Megven. A more direct appeal to Judge Lynch or a vigilance committee could hardly have been expected in regions where such magistrates and organizations execute the law in their own way. We are glad to notice that the good work of 4