The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1876, Page 4

ga LITERARY OPPOSITES The KEecentricities of the} Poet Swinburne. AN ENGLI A Glance at Ruskin in Pri vate Life. A YOUNG AMERICAN ARTIST | sensuality of others, obnoxious to so many of bis read- HPOE.| Loxpox, April 22, 1876. It wasthe talk of London not a very great while ago that Mr, Swinburne, the most popular of England’s poets, had been expelled from one of his clubs— the Arts Club—although the cause of this rebuke, thanks to tho reticence of the aggrieved members, was not made public, On the whole, considerable indignation preva that the members of the club had not been } willing to condone the poet’s offences for the sal his genius. The facts of the case were thes: Durne, as is unfortunately too well known, altho isat the shrine of Aphrodite that he offers incense in his verse, is himself possessed and tormented by an imperious demon in the servico of Bacchus—huiniliat- jug confession! Much had the members of t uh endured from his vagaries and caprices in moments of excitement, and hitherto endured in silence. Buton one unfortunate evening he encountered a friend—one of those friends who are always ready to prove their devotion to a man of genius by flattering his vices—and who vecame his companion in an orgy of sled Proposing to leave the club, the poet could not find his hat, when yielding to the frenzy to wh sueh temper- ments, wrought upon by unnatural stioulants, are liable, he seized the bats of all the members, hurled in wild rage upon the floor, and performed upon what must have been, according to the deserip- have had of it, an Indian war dance, with accom- Paniment of ferocious gesture and outrageous war Whoop. This frantic rite concluded, he rushed wildly from the building. What were those injured and hat- fess members to do? Tho tine had come when endur- | | | | ance ceased to be a virtue, Respeet for the genius of the author of “Atalanta? and the S before Sunrise’? had persuaded them fo submit to many annoyances, but the destruc- | lion of twenty or thirty polished stove-pipes, danced | delore their eyes to a shapeless mass, was tho final blow | which arouses to rebellion, Was this likewise to be mudured? The gods of Philistia forbid. | THE INKVITARLE DECREE. Sternly they met together with set lips and resolute brows, resolving that the time foraction had come, As respectable British citizens no longer could they allow decency to be outraged and hats immolated even by a genius who had proclaimed “man the ma: \hings; who had wiped out Ged with a sue Wwrned His desecrated altars and danced upon them With the nimble teet of his resoun ting rhythms a war dance not less frantic than the one just executed for ¢ own benefit—not even to such a gemius allowed the privilege of destroying hats vith impunity, They would have preferred to avoid the scandal, but it in vain--Swinburne was expelled. The poet isa warm and devoted friend of the painter and poet Ros- retti, and has proved his devotion in many ays, not only im their — pergonat inter | course, but in the splendid tribute which | he has paid Rossetti’s genius in his critical review of | his poems; and yet even this friendship hag not | always been undimmed by cleuds, Some years ago he wasin the habit ef spending a groat deal of time at Rossetti’s house, and on one oceasion, soon after ho had loft him, a lady inquired of the art st how he had beon able to separate from his beloved Pythias, Alas! madame,” Rogsetti replied, “one grows weary of carrying even one’s best friend upstairs every night.” Another lady expressed her regret that M Swinburne’s habits were such that she was unable to Invite him to her house; Rossetti aroused her joyful yinpathy by informing hor that the poet had quite reformed, but only to add, when she had congratulated him upon an event so unlooked for and desirable:— “He does not now get drunk more than five days out of the week.” A DANGEROUS PRIEND, Swinburne’s temperament is, indeed, so peculiar, go | bi; trang and irritable, that it is impossible tur bim to brook opposition; and in his moments of furious ex. citement, whether occasioned by the use of stimulants, by righteous indignation or furious rage, he sometim: proves dangerous even to those whom he most highly reveres, His hatred and detestation of Napoleon he has ot din prose and verse. One day, in talk With Rossetti, he was angered to find that his friend did not agree with him in his estimate of this iniqui- | ‘The discussion grow warm, when sud. denly Swinburne few at Rossetti’s throat, praned him to a bookcase and almost throttled him. Forta- nately Rossetti, with the help of a friend who was in the studio, succeeded m getting him to the ground and | holding him there until bis rage had subsided, Soon | alter this exploit he met at the studio of a distinguished painter several well-known artists, but was himself in | such a condition that his friends persuaded him to | seek repose; they laid him comfortably upon a couch, | tondly imagining be would wake up restored to his better Fell, Vain delusion! Swinbarue awoke possessed by the idea thet a shilling had been stolen trom bis pocket; he acensed all present of the thett; would not listen to their vrecating denials, and insisted that his prop- erty shouid be restored, Not until his able host had pretended to find on the tloor a shilling taken from his own pocket, and had presented it to him, was the | denion of the poet appeased, BIS WETPRR SELP, With anature thus unbalanced and habits so por bh express fous monster, Vertyd one can only wonder at the force of genius of | ted man, who, in spite of his lamentable ex- his follies afd extr: 3, coitrives—by te who shall say ?—to carry on his literary | «1 who produces work alter work indicating yevere study, laborious research, and, iv a certain tense, continual progress in the sublime art of wh forms he has such unoxampled command, It is true | shat Swinburne can count among his numerous friends | those who are his good angels, under whose influence | he is another man; irritable and overexcitable indecd, yet capable of arduous labors, and responsive to all . When with his mother in the coun- 4 woman beautiful, intelligent and voble—tar from stracting excitements of eclty life, he is always at in his congenial bome he often remains tor | months, and it 18 most probably at such seasons of re- | pose that his best work is accomplished. ‘Tho time has not yet como for a true and exhaustive criticisin o | Swinburne’s genius and rapidly produced poems. Has | the charm ot these brillant improvisations (many of his poems are nothing more) been heightened by the | and moroid excitability of exceptional Has the true development of his fenius been checked by the want of balance and har- mony of his own nature? This is an interesting in- quiry, and one which we can safely prophesy will occupy a little army of the critics of the future. For mysell, without entering into a discussion of the sub- fect, I Incline to adopt the latter hypothesis, A TRUK PorT. At present the praise bestowed upon Swinburne is Somewhat indiscriminate, and very naturally so, for his saperb command of language, his unexamplod mastery of rhythins and metres, captivates and amazes. Yot Mt cannot be denied that his intricate fugues and sym- phonies of word music are but tov often morely word music; uninformed by a corresponding imtouse Life of | sudtic thought; uninspired by a central, all-pervading and contretling sublime concept There is much of ais poetry wh wh part, at Joast, [ find it unpossible to read \t consecut y, orto remember what I read. The effect that 1 produces is pre- eisely that of a great deal of merely sensuous masie, which seeks to charm the car without appeating to the Soul—as soon as its tingling vibrations have ceased they an are forgotten. Is WORKS Tn his best works, however, Swinburne frees himself from this bewildering labyrinth, delirious with swe but mindless melodies, ‘‘Ataianta in Calydon.”’ that | pure and polished gem, and the best of bis “Songs” are mo less chaste in expression than gorgeous; are | @biwclled with the freedum aud = druiness | | sible to obtain at almost any cost; | aud munifcent in generosity. | ties wisely dispensed; as an instance, ho has just given | offending his vanity or wounding hia pride. And from | ume | from her bome on the half past three A. M. train forthe | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY of a great pont, Redundancy of words renders “Bothwell” heavy ands monotonous; ‘cone is satiated with the pomp and fulness of the glow- ing and Howing haes, which apparently might flow on | forever without stop or stay; even in the ‘Krectheus,"? a far greater poem than “Bothwell,” Iam conscious of something of the illusive quality of mere word music to which t have referred, It is most probable that the lack of sustained theught and severity of noble form discernible in tis later poems, the violence and extravaganee of opinion of some of them, and ers, have been occasioned in a great measure by a lack of concentration induced by his babits of life. What intellect, however brilliant, could endure unimpaired the excesses of which he is guilty? In spite of bis de- fects and follies Swinburne has numerous and devoted friends; for he is sincere, enthusiastic and affectionate, as well as extraordinarily gifted. AN AGREEAKLE COMPARISON. To comment, although im the most friendly spirit, upon a man so one-sided and unbalanced, in spite of his great qualities, is not altogether an agreeable task, With far more satisfaction Iturn to Ruskin, one of England’s really great men, who, beyond a doubt, has rendered art more true service than any living author, Ruskin has often been, I believe, in former years, accused of exceptional irritab:hty, bat time has softened his pecaliarities and harmonized bis noble character, Strangers, in solf-deteace, so hardly is he pressed by ahost of unknown admirers who, if he al- lowed himself to be taken advantage of, would con- sume his time and strength, he is oftem obliged to repel with amask of indifference or haughty reserve ; butamong his friends no ono is more simple, gentle, affectionate, sympathetic and inspiring. Ruskin is an enormous worker, and has never been more intensely occupied than at present. Professor of Art at Ox- | ford, be sponds tho principal portion of his time in | that g nd old tewn, rich in all lofty associations, but makes frequent excursions to London and to bis beau- tiful country seat. He 1s bringing out a complete edition of his works, which it 1s now almost impos- ts engaged in a series of now works not yet announced to the world, In the preparation of which he is receiving the assistance of a number of loarned professors; ho edits a paper bristling with aphorisms and technicalities, which, to the comprehension of a Philistine, would prove hard sayings, the reason, perhaps, that he reserves it for circulation among the élite; he delivers his lectures, and yet finds time to sow his laberious path with the wayside blossoms, which are an earnest to the public of the greate® works they will hereafter enjoy. FARLY HOURS. With this picture of what he is accomplishing one fs not surprised to learn that he rises at four o'clock in the morning, In the winter makes his fre with his own hands, and constantly pursues his various occupations with the impassioned zeal which is the condition of the true development of genius, Raskin is very wealthy A large portion of his large income he spends yearly in charities—true chari- £7,000 to a fund whieh is being admirably organized for the benefit of unfortunate authors, A YOUNG AMERICAN ARTIST, In proot of Ruski’s kindtiness of — dispo- sition and sympathetic nature I will refer to an episode in his lite in which Americans should be interested, since the heroine is a young American girl, destined to win for herself, it the promise of the present is faliitled, brilliant laurgle, Tncimate with an agreeable American family, who have resided* for many years in London, the distinguished author became specially interested in one of the children of the household, a little girl of thirteen, wihiose singular sweet- ness of nature, talent and beanty have alredy, in her early youth, won for her singular privileges. Lalla was fond of drawing, and was taking Igssons of the man who was once the mas- ter of Ruskin himself—an old artist and in repute an adimiradle teacher—although he had failed to follow his great pupil in his profounder researches und to grasp his subtler methods of instruction. Examining the studies of the child, Ruskin was convinced that she had talent ofa high order, and was being misdirected, and proposed himself to become her teacher, He gained the glad consent of her parents to his scheme, and suc- ceeded with consummate tact in dismissing his own former master and the master of his pupil without that day the great master has been devoted to the young student, even now, amia bis multifarioas em- ployments, tinding time to pay her a weekly visit: and ‘to send her several letters in the course of the week, discussing the subtie mysteries and technicalities of art, in which she has now become profoundly versed, for Lalla did not fail to make the utmost use of her Tare opportunity, She is, Mr. Ruskin says, the best pupil he has ever nad, and he predicts for her the noble career of one of the true disciples of high art to whom it is given to be a master of ideal beauty. “Are you not proud oi her,” he said on his inst visit to her mother, “for Lam.” Tho answer of the happy mother, or her feeling at least, can readily be imagined. THR POPULAR, It is to this same sweet Lalla that Virginia Gabrielle, now Mrs. Marsh, herself with a vein of genias so charming aud unique, hasdedicated her beautiful bal- lad, “Only.’” With all the advantages} and _opportun!- ties afforded by wealth and position, beautiful, tntel- Jectual, kind, gifted, her flower ot life has bloomed in the sunshine of a serene summer. The marvellous success of her sweet melpdies is but one of many proofs of how highly any uttera of genius is prized | which touches the heart, It proves, also, what power is within the grasp of the artist who has the privilege of cultivating his or her vein of inspiration in frees dom. Her compositions command fabulous sums, For “Only? she received £500, This, with twoor three other | hitle songs, brought the composer a thousand guineas, besides a yearly royalty amounting to some hundreds of | pounds. Wishing to render a service to an artist 10 interested, and who was in deticate health, Virginia Gabrielle presented her with one of her compositions, In a very short | this sweet woman died unexpectedly, and | her moter and sisters are now living in comtort upon the meome derived from the gilt of the com- poser. Pleasant must it be, the power of thas scatter- ing benefit with as much ease as the sun sheds hight. Married toa man of great ability and some political distinction she has been forced by her position tuto the mid-whirl of social dissipation, but has not beea spoiled by it, She is one of the few who are in the world without being of the world, A short time since | this charming lady called upon Mrs, Blaully when | Ruskin was giving Laila her lesson, and the interview | Was a memorable one; for mind quickening mind, and genius genius, a conversation followed which was as the talk of gods. It was a pleasure to listen to Rus- kin’s uuwonted outburts of eloquence, and Virginia Gabrielic paid many a tribute to the great art teacher, by which he must have been touched. For instance, she sud, “Do you know, Mr. Ruskin, that you have | beeu of no less benefit to composers than to painters? | My best efforts were inspired by my study of your works.” You will allow that Lalla is a happy ehila w | have secured the friendship and admiration of Virginia | Gabrielle and Mr, Ruskin, Seeing her, knowing her, ‘one recalls the exquisite lines of the German poet:— wie eine Blume, nd sehiin Teh sehau' dien an und ‘Sebleicht mir in's Hers Mir ist, als ob teh die Hande Aut’s Haupt dir legen sollt?, Betend, dass Gott dich erhalté So rein und sehom und hold. Wi whom she wus ehmuth hineia, THE KELSEY SUICIDE. | Miss Lila Kelsey, whose sad death by her own hands | was recorded in yesterday's Henao, was very weil coa- | nected in this city. Loais Watts, a well known politi, inn of a few years ago, was her brother-in-law, and | she was related to Thomas Acton, former president of the Board of Police. Coroner Woltman beld an inquest on the body yesterday morving and a verdiet of suicide | | was rendered by the jury, No cause could be arsigned for the act, as the young lady was in very good circum stances. Charles Kelsey, her brother, residing in Brooklyn, ciaimed the body and a permit of burial was given, The suneral isto take place from the scenc of her death, No. 190 Grand street, to-morrow morning, and she will be buried in Greenwuod Cometery, A RUNAWAY GIRL Eliza Gilman, fourteen years old, of Poughkeepsie, ‘was brought to the Nineteenth precinct station house yesterday morning, where she stated that she had come purpove of finding ber mother, Who was at work in this | city mvestiga! su ron trom te Her mothe she ehkeopsie yesterday worming iu the care uf 4 Coudacion ne. | Bench Division of the High Court ot Justice in the case WINSLOW'S EXTRADITION. a The Treaty Complication With Great Britain. ee SECRETARY FISH’S POSITION. Winslow Patiently Waiting His Discharge. a AMERICAN TREATY RIGHTS COMPLICATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN—SEC- RETARY FISH'S POSITION AS OFFICIALLY EX- PRESSED FROM WASHINGTON—THE ASHBUR- TON TREATY ABROGATION—WINSLOW WAITING HIS DISCHARGE, Loypoy, April 27, 1876. A Reuter’s telegram, appearing in the London papers this morning, relers to a despatch sent by Mr. Fish respecting the extradition of Winslow, who is still in custody tor alleged forgery, but will be released on the 13th of May, unless an understanding between the two governments is in the meantime arrived at. The despatch referred to was delivered at the Fore:gn Office on or about Saturday, the 22d, bat no reply has yet been made to it, owing to a domestic ailliction in the household of Lord Derby, THE AMERICAN POSITION, As far as can be learned, the United States govern- ment firmly adheres to the treaty of 1842, while the British government maintains that the provisions of the treaty have been superseded by an act of Parlia- ment passed on the 9th of August, 1870, by virtue of which itis held that— A fugitive criminal shall not be surrendered to a foreign State unless provision is made by the law of that State, or by arrangement, that the fugitive shall not, until he has deen restore 1 or had an opportunity of re- turning to Her Majesty’s dominions, be detained or tried m that foreign State tor any olfenes committed prior to his surrender other than the extradition crime proved by the fucts on which the surrender is grounded, ENGLISH REASONS POR REFUSING TO GIVB UP WINSLOW. On this, which is contained in section 3, subsection 2, of the act referred to, the British government rest their argument and refuso the extradition of Winslow, The same act of Parliament, however, holds (section 9) that, when a fugitive criminal is brought before the police magistrate, the magistrate has the same jurisdic- tion and powers, as near as may be, as if the prisoner wore brought before him charged with an indictable offence committed in England;” and in the following paragraph (10) it 1s provided that— If the foreign wayrant authorizing the arreat te duly authenticated and such evidence produced as (subject to the provisions of this act) would, according to the law of England, justify his committal in. England, the magistrate shall commit him to prison, but ottier: wise shall order him to be discharged, This evidence has been furmehed by the United States authorities, The Sceretary of the Amorican Legation has appeared at Bow street on several occa- sions to authenticate the warrant and the proceedings against Winslow, but the Attorney General, Sir John Holken, steps in and points to the act and argues that the provisions of this AcT OF AUGUST, 1870, overrides treaty stipulations, He forgets, hewever, that in this very same ‘act, the aid of which he invokes to liberate the prisoner, is another provision, which reads as foliows:— Sxction 27.—The acts specified tn the third schedule to this act are hereby repealed as to the whole of Her Majesty’s dominions, and uns act, with the exception of anything contained in 1t which 18 duconsistent with the treaties referred to in the acts so repealed, shall ap- ply, as regards crimes committed either before or after the’ passing of this act, in the case of foreign States with which these treaties are made, tn the same man ner as ifn order in Council referring to such treaties had been made in pursuance of this act, and as if such order had directed that every law and ordinance which is in force in any Briush possession with Tespect to such treaties should have eflect as part of this act. TUR PARLIAMENTARY LAW ON THE SUBJECT. ‘This clearly shows that, whatever the act of Parlia- ment provided for to the contrary, the treaty stipula- tions with the United States hold good, and the honor of England as well as that of the United States 1s in- volved in the maintenance of the stipulations referred to. This seems to be fully recognized by the Foreign Office, and it does not appear that from it Lord Derby has emanated any objection to the surrender of Wins- low, From the information I can gather, the sus- picion lurks im my mind that other motives lie at the Dottom of this reiusal, Tho extradition of Law- rence has often been commented on as hay- ing been precipitate, Lawrence, argue rome London laws: was not a forger, but simply a smuggler. Many persons in Liverpool and other large commercial centres of England are impho:ted in this and similar smuggling transactions. It is surmwed that the intluence of these parties was brought to bear on the present case. There are, of course, no proofs wherewithal to substantiate my suspicion, but from all Tecan learn I have no doubt that the wealth and influ ence of some mercantile men are secretly at work to raiso the point as to the VALIDITY OF THESE TREATY STIPULATIONS. However that may be, it is interesting to refer to the fact that prior to the passing of tho act of Parliament of 1870 a Parliamentary commitiee had inquired into the working of extradition treaties. Before that commit- tee, in June, 1863, the Hon. Edmond Hammond gave important evidence, and in answer to a question put to him, made the following statement :— We admit tn this country (England) that if a man is bona side tried tor. the oltehce for which he was given ‘up there its nothing to prevent his being subsequently tried for another offence, ether antecedently commit ted or not. ‘Tits reply was given on reference being made to a per- son who was extradited on a charge of robbery commit- ted on board the steamer Philo Parsons, but on which the jury disagreed, inasmuch as the prisoner had been act- ing under a commission of the Contederate authorities, In pursuance of the same inquiry, Mr. Richard Maullens, who had been at that period solicitor to the Association of Bankers against Frauds, and still bolas that office, and than (whom ho higher authority on the subject could be found, im reply to the following question put to him by the Jate Mr. Mill. AN AUTHORITY ON THE SURJECT, “As I understand it, tne treaty with America would not prevent. oar trying a man for a dif ferent offence trom that for which he had been given up?” replied, “It would no ere is no stipulation that he should not be tried for any other offe ag To @ subsequent question put by Mr. Mull, as fol- lo ‘ould you wish to extend that state of things to foreign countriest’’ Mr. Mullens emphatically replied, “With regard to America I uever found any difficulty about it, but since I have ‘d the question discussed in thts room I begin to think a httle more about it, and with regard to the coounent of Earopa, it might be necessary that there should be some stipulations as to what should happen to a man if he were acquitted ot the crime with which he was charged under the ox- tradition treaty.” It appears tolerably clear from the foregoing that Mr. Muliens referred to political prisoners and had not tu bis mind the possibility of extraditing political pria+ wuers if demanded by the United States, & FRENCH Case, T may add that tho view taken by the United States is not only shared by the Foreign Oflice officials tat least, so far as I can learn 1 find that to be the case), but the interpretation which the act has receivea is evep confirmed, directly and indirectly, by the Queen’s ot Bouvier, Subsequently to the passing of the act an | assurance had been given by the consular authorities that the prisoner in France was never tried but for the oifence under which he was extradited, The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Alexander Cockburn, said that even if that were not so theré was nothing that would prevent the French government from doing so, Thus the matter stands, and, as stated above, if no understanding ts come to on of beforo the 3d of May Winslow will be liberated, THE LAWRENCE INCIDENT, above referred to, is not the only one which has evoked sympathy in favor of Winslow, There are several ports of detail counected with his capture which, itis thought by Koghsimen, are open to objection. It ts argued that the American Consul at Rotterdam not only prejudged the case of Winslow, but believed Mrs, Winsiow to be implicated in the alleged frauds, If all be true that is reported in reference to the action of this Consul, it will be necessary for Mr. Fish to instk | tate an investigation. PRESS COMMENTS, Littic is said about the Winslow aifuir tn any of the , 8, 1876.—TRIPLE © London papers, but some of the provincial journals have taken itup, One of the latter remark: A Tory government has never proved friendly toward America, It was a Tory government that lost us the North American colonies, and we cannot expect that a government which creaies emperors and e! should bear friendly feeling toward a republic. The Pall Mail Gazette of the 26th inst. says:— A telegram from Washington announces that ‘Mr, Fish bas set strong protest against the action of the English government regarding Winslow's extradition, which probably reached Lord Derby to day.” Mr. Fish “protests too mach.” Protests, however apes are quite thrown away in matters of this kind, it is astonishing that a member of the administration of a country in which the judiciary exercise an even greater control over the action of the Executive than in our own should fail to see the futility of addressing these prone to an English foreign sccretary, The question a8 uogether out of the range ot diplomatic action, must remain outade it so long as the Wasbington Cabmet maio- tain their present attitude. Lord Derby and the rest of Her Majesty’s government are as much bound by the terms of the Extradition act of 1870 as any pri- vate citizen among us; and that statute, as construed by the legal aavisers of the Crown, clearly forbids the government acceding to Mr. Fish’s solicitations for an unconditional surrender of the prisoner Winslow. There can be no doubt, we imagine, that even if the government were to accede to these solicitations and consent to Winslow’s extradition without terms, th might still be brought up by habeas corpus, aua if’ the court took the same view of the act as the law officers, it would be bound to prevent his extradition, Andthat they would tuke the view of the law officers there seems: to us to be no possibility of doubting upon the plain meaning of the terms of the section relating to the case, WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE. JOHN BRIGHT'S SPERCH ON THE PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION OF FEMALE VOTING—ARE THE ‘(MEN TYRANTS” AND THE ‘‘ WOMEN SLAVES?” During the acbate in the House of Commons on the above subject, on April 26, Mr, John Bright rose amid loud cheers and said:— 1 need hardly tell you, sir, that it is with extreme re- luctance that 1 take part in this debate; but I am somewhat peculiarly circumstanced with regard to this question, Inthe year 1867, when Mr. Stuart Mill first made a proposition like that contained in this bill to the , L was one of those who went with him into the In his autobiography he refers to this fact, and 8 that | was one of those who were oppored to the proposition submitted to the House, but that the weight of argument m his favor was so great that 1 was obliged to go with bimanto the lobby. I can yery hon- estly say that he was entirely mistaken in that statement, Though 1 did vote with him, ! voted under extreme doubt, and far more from smpathy with him for whom in many respects and on many grounds I bad so great adwiration than for the proposition with which he was then identified. But if 1 had doubts thon I may say that those doubts have beon only confirmed by the fur- ther consideration I have been able te give to this ques. tion, The bill seems to me based upon a proposition which 1s uatenable (‘Hear, hear !’’) and which, 1 think, 48 contradicted by universal experience. (Cheers) It isa Dill based An assumed hostility between the sexes, (Hear, hear!’’) Now I don’t believe that any man in this house entertains that view (**Hear, hear!) but if honorable members were accustomed to hear the speeches of the principal promoters of this bill out of doors—if they had had the opportunity | have had of familiar conversation with the promoters of tho monsure with regard to this question, I think they would admit that the bill ag offered to us is a bill based upon an assumed, constant and irreconcilable hostiuinty between the two sexes, {‘Hear, hear.”) The men are represented as being tyrants, the woman as sunk in the lowest aeyths of slavery. Those are words which are actually made use of by the air who are the principal promoters of the bill (‘‘hear, bear”) and mind you this 1s not said of savuge nations, but it is said of men in this civilized and Christian country in which wo live, (Hear, bear!) If we look at the mon of this country what strikes us more than anything else? That at this moment there are hundreds of thousands, aye, millions of men, sacrificing comfort, suffering hardships, confronting difficulties in every shape and form, for what?— why, for the sake of securing tho comfort and happiness of women and children, (General cheers.) And yet it is ot these men that this language is made use of by the chief promoters of this bill, CBee hear!) " What 13 the object of the measure? s it not to enable women to defend themselves agaidst a Parliament of men; and the facts which are brought forward 1n its favor, are they not of the flimsiest char- acter? The question bas been'raised as to the tnjus- tico of the laws which affect the property of married women, but is there no injustice in the laws of the country affecting the property of men? Havo younger sons no cause to complaim? (*Hear, hear!) Ifa man dies tho street, leaving real property, amounting to £100,000, who’ does it go to? Why, to the boy who, by accident of birth, happens to bo the eldest, to the exclusion of the younger children, This surely is a grievance, and a great one—greater in fuct to my mind than any one which has been urged in favor of the measure before the House, These matters muy not in reality affect the question at stake, but they undoubtedly have a bearing upon it Nothing can ‘be more Monstrous and absard than to place women— who are our mothers, our sisters or our daughters, whose whole existence is wrapt up in our own, who are near and dear to our hearts—as a separate class, and it is a scandalous | and odious hbel to say that they are aseparate class and that they aro, therefore, exciuded trom our sympa- thica, and that Parltament caunot and will not do jus- tice in regard to them, (Loud cheers.) I do not be- Neve that women sufler by not being represented in Parhament, and I do not beheve it would be an ad- vantage to them if they were so. represented. (Hear, hear!) By this dill it 13 said that somethiog like {400,000 or 400,000 votes will be placed on the register— that is, about 13 per cent of the present constituency; but the measure intentionally excludes by far the groat- est portion of women who may be suid to be specially i BOSS TWEED. The Great Fugitive at a Saw Mill in the Wilds of Canada. STORY OF HIS LIFE DURING THE WINTER How the Natives Were Deceived by a Mute Old Gray Haired Man. THE DETECTIVES ON THE TRAIL, A Ducking in the Sound and a Narrow Escape From Capture. MipLaxp, on Georgian Bay, May 4, 1876. ‘The people of this country have been startled by the information that a party of three men, one of whom is, without doubt, the notorious William M. Tweed, of New York, had spent the winter on the Muskoka Raver, about thirty miles from bere and about 100 miles from Toronto, the capital of Ontario, Tho de- scription given exactly suits that of the “Boss,” and the reliability of the parties from whom the following information has been gleaned leaves no doubt that it is correct, and that Canada, up to last Friday, had been the hiding place of the great fugitive from New York justice, To make the mass of iformation and rumors current in this vicinity intelligible to the read- ers of the Hukauo it is necessary for your correspond- ent to detail the facts which have caused ‘the people in this vicinity, and more important of all, two New York detectives, who have been here tortwo weeks past, to believe that Tweed was iu Canada up to Friday Jast. About 100 miles north of Toronto is the free grant TERRITORY OF MUSKOKA, called afer a lake and river of that name situated within the district, Muskoka Lake is about twenty-five water by Muskoka River, The whole district 1s noted for its fine lakes, rocks and trout streams, and is only known to the few settlers who are located therein and the adventurous sportsman or angler, ono of the Jattor being Frank Halleck, who spent a season fishing in its streams. A uew railroad touches one cornor of the district, but the rest of it is very poorly supplied with roads, the greater portion of tho traftic being carried on the waters in suimmer, In winter the people are practically shut out from the outerworld and, owing to their scattered position and the deep snow, even from one another, For weeks at atime neighbor does not see neighbor. Tho wildest part of tho whole district is along the Muskoka River, from the Georgian Bay up for a dis- tance of ten miles, The banks are or have been cov- ered with pine and huge bowlders. Through this lo- cality it ts'almost impossible to get in winter time, About six miles from the mouth of the river is Parks? saw mill, near which the **Boss” has found A SAPE HAVEN from the torments of New York jails and the officers of justice. The mill, owing to depression in the lumber trade, was closed most of lust summer and all winter. Within it there aro four run of saws, which, when going, employ a considerable number of men, for whose accommodation a largo fram# boarding houso js standing near by. About fitty yards from this and on the bank of tho river is a cottage, occupied when the mill is ranning by Mr. Parks, his manager, foreman and housekeeper. There aro also a few shanties around the mill, inhabited by the hands who are married. At the close of last fall only three families lived around the mill in these shanties, the boarding house being closed and the cot- tuge tenuntiess, The mill is accessible during naviga- tion to small steamers and barges, but during winter, only once or twice in the siz mouths can it bo reached from the Colonization road, The only way in which travelling can be done from the mill in winter ts down the river and then go nortiyou cannot go south—on the ice of Georgwn Bay; but this ovly takes you to a more inhospitable section than Muskoka, laving de serived the country and its location, now comes id THK ADVENT OF THE “OsR” Toward the end of last November, when navigation had closed on the Georgian Bay and all the boats on that water had laid up tor the winter, two men arrived at Owen Sound, the leading port on the bay, and pur- chased a large stock of provisious, which were deliy- ered on the whart the same afternoon. Beforo night the small screw steamer Okondra (Inuian for rock chn), | Which had gono into winter quorters, was seen getting up steam, but these circumstances at the time only re- ceived passing notice, In the morning she was gone, and go were the boxes and barrels of provisions that qualitied to exercise the franchise—l mean married women. (‘*Hear, hear!) It this bill passes, what will be the question asked in this Houser We shail have given voles to young women who aro not married, and to old widows, and we shall be -asked, “Why not do the same toward the others? Why should married women directly they game out of the church or the chapel lose their privi- lege in this Dat Is ita tairthing? If unmarried women are qualified why should married women bo disqualified ?’’ (Hear, hear!) We buve a right to ask the promoters of the bill these questions, and we have aright to demand that an answer should be given us, “Hear, hear!”’) If we are to adopt this bill let us know: ow far weare going and to whatittends I havea sympathy, 8 the House knows, with a wide suffrage, but I want to know before putting to soa what weather we are likely to have, and to what haven we aro bound. (‘*Hear, hear!’’) The honorable member for Lincolnshire alluded to the double vote—one for: the husbend and one for the wife. If they were agreed it would make no difference In tho elec- tion, but if they were not it would produce, the great- poy Prone in families, and, as geverally the daughters side with the father and the boys with the mother, wo should produce an amount of unhappiness in families which cannot possibly arise under the present system. There are, perhaps, fow members of ts House who cun look back upon their electioneering experiences without regret, and some, I fear, without haméhation. Is it desirable, then, to introduce all the excitement which goems attendant on election contests, not only in this country but im the United | Staies and in France—as we have lately seen— to domestic hfe? 1 don’t say women are more liable to be overcome by these influences than ‘we are ourselves, but so fur ag municipal contests aro concerned, scenes took place in certain boroughs I could name and great drunkenness prevailed among women owing to the fuct of opportunities being aflorded during the elections which would not have deen oflered except during the coutinuanca of a fierce political contest, Of one thing there is no doubt—the influence of priest, parson and minister will be greatly increased if this ‘and similar measures aro passed. | (‘‘Hear, hear!) I recollect last year discussing this bull With a goutleman who was a former member of Parl: mept and who represented an Irish coustituency, and ho said that in Catholic Ireland the women’s vote might be always taken to be the priest? Hear, bear!” and “No, no!”) Weil, I give it on the authority « member who represented Ireland and who was at least equally ablo on a matter of this kind to give an opiwion as any English or Irish member in the present House of Commons Wo are asked to make this great change in order to arm the women of this country against’ the men—to sce them against their fathers, their husbands, their brothers and their sops, To me the dea is strange and nstrous, and in my opinion a more basolors cuse was bever submitted to the House of Common: (Hear, hear!) 1 caunot, however, believe Parlia- ment will be so unwise; so far asl am concerned the diticultics of the subject become stronger and stronger the more I have considered them, and, notwithstand- Sng that many of those L respect and love are tater. ested in the matter,l am obliged to give my vote Against the honorable and learned ember for Maryle- bone. (Cheers. ) BROOKLYN FiRES. A fire occurred ata late hour on Saturday night on the third floor of the boarding house of Mrs. Parker, corner of Washington and Concord streets, caused by @ kerosene lamp falling from a bracket. Damage about $50; no itsurance. At an early hour yesterday morning a fire was dis- covered in thé picture frame store of Isaac Dubelsky, No, 225 Bridge street, Brookiyn, The building and stock were damaged to the extent of $200; fully in- sured, Cause of tire nuknown, ROUGHLY TREATED, Frederick Rogers, while waiking along Grabam ave- ue, Williamsburg, yesterday morning, was assaulted, near Stagg street, by John Wolfert. The latter, with. out a word, struck Rogers on the temple with some bDlant instrument, felling b to the ground and inthe ing an ugly gash.” Wollert, ou bei arrested, dened that he had dove anything but defend himseit, ALLEGED ARSON, Shortly before midnight of Saturday Owon Duily, who owns a blacksmith shop oa Flushing avenue, near ‘Wythe avenue, brooklyn, saw two men trying to set his place fire, They piled shavings against the and kerosene oil over them. They then igo ‘ae combestors Material and fied. Yesterday J of Dobson was arrested on suspicion of being one ¢ incendiaries, Ho is held to await examination, had been purchased the day before, as well as the two men who had bought them. The Okondra, 1t has now been learned from i- quiries at Presqu Isio lighthouse, on the Owen Sound, called there on that same night and took on board a party of three, consisting of a very stout old man, with longish gray hair, and two others, one bo- ing about twenty-five and his companion not less than forty years. This Presqu Isle isa barren beach, with only a couple of houses and a trading post. The party of three bad only reached Presqu Isle before the boat artived, and they were conducted to it, according to the desoription giveu by the lighthouse keeper, by the two men who had been in Owen Sound a lew hours before. How tho men reached Presqu Isle has not yet been learned. The men ov board the Okondra At once steamed away, got out in the bay and was not | sean till she returned to Owen Sound two days atter- ; ward, Where she went is now discovered, Having left Presque Isle she crossed the bay, going south of Christian Island, andfrom that tothe mouth of the Muskoka River, up which she ascended as jar as the landing at Park’s mill, The boat was met at the wharf by Park, who has business connections in the Roches- tor and Albany lumber markets. He had pet been at the null for months ull this day, and had reached it by the Colonization road from Gravenburst, the termi- nus of the railway. He told the three families residing atthe mills that he bad leased them to Mr. Ryan, who is now identified as the elder of the two men who had boarded the Okondraat Presque Isie along with the | stout old gentleman, Ryan, shortly after nis arrival } and the unloading of the packages of provisions, told | the Chambers and the other two families that they could move their eflects into the boarding haces, on condition that they continued to keep an eye on the mill as they had done for Parks. He also told them that himsell, the ola gentiomaa, bis father, and the young man, his nephew, would live ia the cottage for the winter, and that they had brought enough provi- sions to last tll spring, when the mill wouid start ap, and when a boat load of hands and necessaries wou! learrive, ‘Tho natives” were astonished at these an- | nouncements, but as they were promised assistance now, and work in the spring, they were rather pleased | at their new visitors. ‘Tue Okondra lett that afternoon, taking with her the two men who had engaged her at | Owen Sound, which port she reached on the second day after her departure from tt. At the mill the three families moved mto the boarding house, and assisted Ryan and the young man to make the nr ie more comfortable, Another stove was taken from boarding house, the doors and windows were closed and other small imjrovements carried out, Tho cottage was tolerably well furnished, including four beds, two of which were used. The alternoon alter their arrival Ryan told the three men that his father had had a par- alytic stroke, and had LOST THK POWER OP SPEKCH. He (tho old man) secmed pertectly healthy, and was always walking round, carrying a large stick. The young man, Henry, did all the cooking except vaking, the bread betug furnished by Mrs, Chambers, The men supplied wood, did the chores, and were frequently employed in shoveling a walk for the old man, wh daily xercise. Mrs, Chambers ame every day to do up the beds, the house being open to her only at stated times and exc!uded to the rest. habited house was seven miles back, and at tho request of Jtyan neither Chambers nor his com. panions visited it, though they once or met {t8 cccunant in the woods, bat told him nothing of the residents of the cottage. Things Went on tn this quiet manner all wimter, aud were only aistarbed once by Mrs. Chambers telling her husband that she was almost certain that she had heard the oid entieman in conversation with Henry, But the two opt it to themscives, and everything passed on quietly till last week, when the following i STARTLING EVENTS took place:—On Monday last, the 24th of April, the two men, who had engaged the Ukondra last jall, suddenly Feappeared in Owen Sound. The ice had not all gone out of the sound, but the Okondra was, on the next day (Tocsday), dnder steam and ploughing her way throug! the broken ice out of harbor, he two men Were accompanied by four enure strangers to the Captain, and, as betore, a large quantity of provisions were taken on at Owen Sound. On Tuesday night, or, Father, Wednesday morning, after great ditieulty im breaking the ice, the Okendra siartied the Inhabitants | of the cottage and boarding house by her whistle. Ryan and Henry, soon followed by the old man and the three men of the large house, were at the dock, where the Six strangers « miles east of Georgian Bay, and connected with that® The nearest in- | the boat warmly sbook hands with i and at once the four men upper deck of the Okondra, every one a cepihey RY, LARGE an The “Boss,” Ryan and Henry shipped into the clear water and immediately g¢ not before the detectives had them. Meantime the Okondra drow nearer tho bout contaming the * ” and the men on board pocmegens the de- ut the two row boats reached the Okondra a large piece ice and the smaller boat struck Sip one cane ing “Boss,” Ryan and Henry. She tinmediately fo sank to the bottom—not more than three teet, but sué licieut to give the three i 7 i : ‘A DUCKING AMD CHILL, The natives on shore were dumbfounded to hear the old man, whom they regarded as deal, calling loudly for help, which soon arrived in the Okondra sending her bout alongside and pulling the three men out. The old man also bis hat aud his long gray hair in the struggle, which further astonished Chambers and his companions. Shots were interchanged between the detectives and the men on the boat, bat no one ia kuown to have been burt, The detectives, tinding fearful odds and a strong determination Agalons the: soon . reti to safer quarters, e boat once steamed down tho river, followed ats convenient distance by Chambers and. the two detea tives in ono bout and two of the mill hands in another, ‘The men who had been wet by the accident were not seen again, but the rest, with their revolvers, occupied the stern of the boat. In about an hour the mouth of the river was feached, and the Georgian roy tan of ico the Okondra took the channel which the north and away from Owen Sound and Midland. The detectives could not proceed “lurther, and, along wil their companions, left the boats and trudged back the mill, Though they appeared disheartened they said they HAD TRACKED THAIR MAN and would soon catch him. The ‘detectives gained all the information they could frouy the mil hands and as once returned here, arriving on Monday.” In the meantime the greatest exciiement vailed in Owen Sound owing to the absence of tho Okondra, she on Tuesday having been a week gone and. no one knew of her whereabouts. A tugbost set out um search of her on Sunday and on Monday reached Park’s Landing, baying been led to that point by a track through the ice und the coal soot and ashes foun in places ou the floating ice tn that part of the bay. At the mill the tug captain learned the above detm)s, and knowing that no accident had occurred tothe Okondra, he at once returned to Owen Sound, where his news produced greater excitement than the reported loss of the Okondra. The detectives, as soon as they returned to Midland, took the train for Toronto, and have not since been heard of, the prevailing opinion beg that they went for assistance. WHERE THE OKONDRA H43 GOXK is exciting attention and surmises. The Georgian Bay bemg cleur, she Could reach Luke Huron or by this time Lake Superior, What 1s known as the norih shore of Georgian Bay 19 dotted with islands, among which the oat could hide for days aud weeks Without detection, From the Georgian Bay she could reach tue north shore of Lake Superior by passing through Lake Haron and the Sault Ste, Marie Canal; but this would subject her to entering the jurisdiciioa oi the United States, A CHILD OF ROMANCE, A SCHOOL GIRL ELOPES WITH HER ROOM MATE'S BETROTHED—TWO DESERTED LOVERS—A MAY- ING PARTY THAT NEARLY ENDED IN & TRAGEDY—SAVED FROM SUICIDE, Exvrrp, Pa., May 6, 1876. Among the young people of tne best circles of Eldred ‘Blessie’”? Cookton, aged sixteen, adopted daughter of Jerome Cookton, a rich farmer, was an ackuowledged leader. She recently returned home from a Philadel. phia boarding school, where she bad been a pupil for four years, making occasional v sits home. On ono of these visits, about a year ago, she :net Alva Evans, the son of an trun founder, of London, Canada, He war Visiting this section with a party of other young mes for the purpose of trout fishing, Evans fell in. love with Miss Cookton. Tho rosult was that a correspond: ence was openod and kept up between the twoanda marriage tixed upon, to bo. consummated when Miss “Blesaie’’ should have reached the ago of eighteon. The roommate aud “particular friond’’ of the youn, lady at schoo! was Frances Peters, of Potersvillo, N. ¥. She was two years the senor ot “Blessie,” and left school some time botore the latter, Miss Poters is.a blondo, execodingly gttractive, and of a dashing and reckless nature. At the house of a friend in Philadelphia sho met Isaac Bell, a young man, represented to be of ag old family and wealthy, Tho young people formed an aulachment for each other—at least Miss Peters foll deeply in Jove with. Boll. as ber parents had otfler matrimonial prospecis marked out for her at home she kept her acquaiotance with young Bell A SEORET trom them, but, it seems, promised to marry him at some future.day. Not being able to have ner lover visit her at home Miss Peters made an arrangement with Miss Cooktoa by which she was to pay the latter a visit, when Mr, Boll was to go also and atay a fow days. To add to the completeness of the arrangement “Blessie”’ wrote to her Canadian betrothed aud ho wad to join the visiting party. Miss Peters came to Eldred about the middle of April, ond in a few days thereafter Isaac Bell made his pearacce, Miss “Blessie”’ liked him from the tirst. t was near the Jatter part of April beforo Mr. Evang came from C During the two weeks that had clapsed since the coming of Mr. Bell Miss Cookton had trausterred her affections to her friend's betrothed, and his love toward Miss Poters had visibly grown cold. It did not take the jealous eye of Miss Peters and tha young Canadian long to notice the chunge, as it Affected them respoctively, but they had no idea’ that it was anything more than a temporary flirtation. On th¢ arrival of young Mr, Evans ‘‘Blossie” planned A MAY DAY PARTY for an excursion to the mountains. On Wednesday morning the party started, in accordance with previoua arrangements, Miss Cookton and Mr, Evang in oue car- riage and the visiting couple in another. On reachiug the woods the party btroiled at raudom, They nata- Tally got somewhat separatet; but while Miss Peters and the Canadian were always in hallooing distance of each other it seemed that the other couple strolled further away. The occasion seemed to be one ot no are to Kvans and Miss Peters, and they, after an hour or so, mot near .tho edge of the woods and sat down to wait the retarn of # couple. They sat there talking tor an hour OF more, and as there was yet no sign of either Bell or ed evi- Miss Cookton both Evans and Miss Peters dence of uneasiness and al: companion to remain in her seat, and he would walk back over the bill and look for ‘Biessie,” as be. wag fenrfal she had lost her way. He was absent a jong time, and Sunhintine ooking pale and anxi He bad seen nothing of either of the imnissing young | folks, Miss Peters was 1 GREATLY AGITATED | over the result of his search, but neither she nos Evans at that time entertained ‘tho slightest ion ‘that tho prolonged absence of the two wan bere or that they were together. They returned to the farm. house where the carriago had been left, in order to give an alarm and have « thorough search made. They found that the conveyance in and “Blessicg had come was gone, For the ARIBLE SUSPICION CROSSKD THRIR MINDS. A farmer told them that igi man and u & young woman bad como mountain about noon, and getting into tho carriage had driven direction of Minot station, Evang the conduct of “ Blessie” and rapidly off in the Bell was anything more than a Pibon at hone. "On even hat thoy. would find them at home. On would not believe that | reach! found were still absent, | Mica Peters ans ia'03 ther root to hide hor emotion. Ina tew sought and found Evans walking io the 5564, Aone @ note ip his hand, It read as WS ‘ | * atly doT love Mr. Bell that Th | Dean td soy So greatly do ae Nees en By wl Frank. ATTEMPTED SUICIDR, The samo evening he was driven to the railroad and to Canada, The fariner’s tamiy took the Teturned matter very calmly. Miss Peter ‘been past all aid, Her wounds were bound up | doctor summoned, who uow has her in charge. 1 cig were sent for and arrived here this ey Will remove their unfortunate daughter to home as soon as they can with salety, A ROMANTIC fusToRY, , the three of the catage, they paying especial attention | to the old man, who was unable to answer, thongh he could hear their greotings. From information given to Ryan by the two men who had engaged the boat” it decided to pass down the river | the next asd the three men of the mul were given” to understand they (the whole party) were going on the Beat up the — bay, to Inspect the timber hmits, But as the Captain said | the bay would not ve navigable farther north for at Teast two or three days it was decided Wy remarm at the | mill; but during that time steam was constantly kept up in the Okondra, and one of the eight men, who now found accommodation with the old man at the cottage, was continually ip the newhborhood of the truil that “Blessic" Cooktou basa remarkabie pose itn ego found, in the summer of 1860, on the top ot Farmer Cookton’s house, in a basket, Accompanying the infant was this not: . ‘This child's fath. Stac ~ | } } Its mother 18 a i rt, who bas been con rist and cannot bear the. thought, of innocent create crowing up in ignorance and vieo. Ix there room for there? Its little wings are weary, and the doar Jesus, it hus no plnee ¢ its head, Turn it not away, bat keop bt, for the love of Christ, , 7" The child was a bright little thing, and, ae the farmer had no children, he and bis wife concluded ty adopt 16 | a8 their own, Tt came to be such jing In the house that they gave it the name of which | was subsequontiy turned into “ilesaia,* J \ . i of