The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1878, Page 2

z HE COURTS. Quashing an Indictment Against the Board of Health. A SOLDIER'S LEGAL FIGHT. ‘The Grand Jury in May last found an indictment against the members of the Board of Health—Pro- fessor Charles F, Chandler, Professor Edward G, Jane Health Officer 8. O. Vauderpoel, and Will- jam F. Smith, president of the Police Board—charging them with misdemeanor, in having allowed the manu- facture of offensive fertilizers on the hulk Algonquin, which lay at the foot of Thirty-niuth street, North River, thereby sanctioning the existence of a nui- sance dangerous to the health of the residents of the city. Counsel for the Board of Health subsequently made a motion to quash the indictment, which was resisted by District Attorney Phelps. Judge Sutherland filed his decision yesterday quashing the indictment against the Commissioners. The Judge holds that the first count of the indictment does not set forthacase of criminal or indictable neglect of official duty, or of any duty, legal or moral, official or unofficial. In view of the statutory powers and du- ties of the Board of Health over nuisances he could not see thu&the allegation of neglect of duty in the count was authorized by the allegations of fact, and holds that the logic of the count is poor aud its conclusion of wilful neglect of official duty lame. The tion whether the manufacturing business complained of was or was not & nuisance was, the Judge holds, a judicial question to be determined by the circumstances of the case—a view evidently concurred in by the Legislature, The allegation that the manufacturing business complained of was a common nuisance he holds to be the conclusion of the grand jurors who found the indictment, and the setting forth that the defendants individually knew that the nuisance complained of was a nuisance and was dangerous to the health of the city of aierely an allegation that the individual d knew of c sts which should reasonably have Jed them to believe so. It was not alleged that the Commissioners had ever met 2s a board or hud ad- judged the manufactures complained of a public huisance, dangerous to health, and until they had done so he could not see how they had any official right or power to abate it, or, im tact, any more power or right to abate it than any unofiicial citizen, ‘Yhe wilful neglect of official duty charged in the count, he holds, is a negiect to abate the alleged nuisance, and not a wilful neglect to meet as aboard and determine whether it was or was not a public nuisance. He holds further that it may be assumed that it was the duty of the defendants to meet as a board and determine that question, The defendants might have been compelled to meet as @ board and determine the question, but of course could not have been coerced by mandamus or any other process to determine or declare their opinion to be that the alleged nuisance was or was not such a nuisance. If the indictment against the defendants should notbe quashed and they should be tried and convicted under the first count he could not see how they could be sentenced without giving to the verdict—in effect finding the alleged nuisance to have been and to be # nuisance of the kind alleged in that count—an ex post tucto force and operation. AU that hat been said as to the first count of the in- dictment applied to the second. If the defendants had demurred to the counts severally, so plain was it that they ought to have judgment in their favor on the demurrer that he thought it his duty to quash the indictment, and he would, therefore, direct that au order to that effect be entered. A CITIZEN SOLDIERS TROUBLES. On the 24th inst. a writ of habeas corpus was al- Yowed op +h» application of Harvey Barmore, Jr., a member of the Seventy-first regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., who sought to be released from jail, where he had remained imprisoned for several days under a war- rant purporting to have been issued by Captain M, L. Vantine, as president of a regimental court martial of the regiment, for non-payment of & military fine imposed upon the re- lator. The Case came up yesterday morn- ing before Judge Donohue, when the prisoner, through Isaac L. Sink, his counsel, claimed his right to be discharged from imprisonment, upon the ground that the President of the court martial had allowed more than forty days to elapse before the warrant under which the relator had been arrested wis renewed, and that by reason thereof the warrant had no existence, aud was null and void before and at the time of the relator’s arrest. Judge Donohue 80 held and ordered the relator’s discharge. SENTENCE OF HENRY BAER. The Court of Oyer and Terminer was but a brief hime in session yesterday, and the only business transacted was the arraignment of Henry Baer for gentence. His counsel, Mr. William F. Howe, made afervent appeal for mercy, claiming that Baer was the victim of indiscreet zeal, rather than the perpe- trator of deliberate fraud, and that the prisoner and his family were now in an impoverished condition. ExJudge Dittenhoeter joined in this application for mitigated sentence, and Judge Daniels, in passing judgment, said that the verdict was thoroughly justi- fied by the evidence, and that Mr. Howe ha defended the accused with much ability. He thereupon sen- tenced Baer to the Penitentiary for six months and fined him $4,000, The prisoner seemed pleased with this result, and, after bowing his acknowledgment to the Judge and thanking bis counsel, he left the court room, fullowed by a host of friends. SUMMARY OF LAW CASES. In August last the creditors of Marks Rinaldo filed & petition in bankruptey proceedings against him in the United States Court. At that time the extent of his liabilities on mortgages and for individual debts amounted to $150,000, His counsel, Messrs. Jacobs Brothers, petitioned Judge Choate for his discharge, and a case fully narrating such discharge having been made out, Judge Choate yesterday directed an order to be entered granting the discharge asked for. Judge Donohue yesterday appointed Arthur Gillen- { Charles A. Whituey, who refuses to appraise property » taken by the fork Central and Hudson Railroad Company west ot its track, between fifth and Seventy-second streets, pursuant to the ecent order of Judge Donohue, granting this land to the railroad company. Meantime application was made yesterday on behalf of some of the disaffected prop- erty owners for a stay of proceedings in the case, This Judge Davis declined to do, but granted an order toshowcause why such stay should not be granted and set the same down for @ hearing to-morrow be- fore him in Supreme Court, Chambers. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. PPREME COURT—CHAM 399, "949 ‘26%, 269, 279, 280, 231, 244, 2! 203, 24. Surkeme GountT—GENERAL TexM.—Adjourned sine Supreme Covrt—Sprectat Term—Held by Judge ‘Van Vorst.—Demurrer No. 16, Platt ys. Platt, at two P. M.; 346, Delius vs. Werner. Supreme Count—Crncuit—Parts 1, 2 and 3.—Ad- Journed for the term. ame CountT—GENERAL Term.—Adjourned sine jie, Scpenion Court—Srxcta, Tenm—Held by Judge Freedman.—No day calendar. Sorruon Covnt—TxiaL Tenm—Parts 1 and 2.—Ad- dourned for the term. an oun PLkas—~GENERAL TkuM.—Adjourned for « term. pa Jommoy PLeas—Equrty Trenu.—Adjourned for the rn. Common Pr n.—No pas—SpectaL Tenm—Held by Judge Van ay ¢ dar, oMMON PLEAS—TRIAL Team—Part 1—Held by Judge Larremore.—No. 344, Heissenbuctel vs. Brunges. No day « dar. Part 2—Held by Judge 4d. B. Daty,—Cave on—No. 1805, Vande Wille ve. Cala han. No day calendar, Manixe Count—Tuiat Tens—Parts 1, 2 and 3,— Adjourned for the term Court OF GENERAL Sxsstons—Part 1.—Adjourned ‘or the term. Count ov Grxvnat Sxssions—Part bs bg oon next. jew York Ovek anp Texminen.—Adjourned until Monday nex ¥ —Adjourned “What brought you over to the west side of the town, Rowen ?” asked Judge Morgan to one of three pri- @oners at the bar in Jefferson Market Court yesterday. “Off you blease, L come over,” said Rowen mod- estly. “I know; but why?” “My gol, she lif on de vest side, Yaw." “Oh, if that’s all, you can go,” remarked the Judge, # And now, Custer, what's your excuse?” he demanded | of No. 2. “Dot vas tho same as Rowen sein excoose. I got | sane 4 yel here too. Yaw. “No, no, That won't work, Custer.” ‘aw, yaw. So helep me yimini clinkers! dot was Don't it, Henry?” appealed he to howen. ww,’ answered Rowen. “Well, you ean go. And now, Schmidt, what's your @iea? Nota girl. It won't work.” vas drunk mit dem oder tellers." Weil, you're honest at any rate. Go home.’ THR SHIELDS WILL CONTEST. Judge Gilbert, in the Supreme Court of Kings @ourty, yesterday settled the order of the General ‘Derm affirming the decision of Judge Dykman, in the | form or pretext. . If NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1878.~TKIPLE SHEET. the late Henry Shields. The action waa brought by the executors of the estate. The deceased was at one time president of the Produce Exchange, and left an es- tate said to be worth $100,000, but owing to the shrink- age in real estate the property has greatly depreciated, When the will was offered for probate, in this county, about three years ago, it was contested by Jane Valentine, an elderly ‘lady, living in Williams- burg, who claimed to his first and law- ful wife. She had two grown children, The will of the deceased was in favor of Mrs. Catherine Shields and the children of the union which had ex- isted between them for many years—they having been married at St. Peter’s Church, Barclay street. Mrs. Catherine Shields, who is an educated’ and highly re- spected lady, was totally ignorant of the existence of Mrs. Shields No, 1, whose maiden name was Valentine. ‘The latter lady, who was of an humble position in lite, contested the will in the Supreme Court, and on the’ second trial of the case a verdict granting her the widow's dower was rendered. The two children of Mrs. Jane Shields then sued to recover their share as heirs-at-law of the estate of Henry Shields. Judge Dykman rendered a decision at Special Term averse to their claims, as he held that the children referred to in the will were those of Mrs, Catherine Shields. [From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Dec, 24.] EvizapeTutowy, Ky., Dec. 23, 1878. About forty years ago aman named John C. Clark, a poor farmer, of Indiana, whose circumstances be- came worse each year, picked up his traps and aban- doned bis family—a wife and two little girls—and, striking toward the Wabash River, hired himself vut as a flatboatman and shipped for New Orleans. From New Orleans he drifted to Texas and that was the last ever heard of him by his family until they heard of his death, which occurred about fifteen years ago. His wife was then dead and both his children had married, one remaining in Indiana, where she now lives, the other removing to Kentucky and locating in this (Harden) county, about three miles below . When’ Clark died he owned an “fand and money, valued ut some- mi near $3,000,000, in Wharton and _ Rich- mgnd counties, which, in the absence of any known heirs, went to the State, as Clark had never communicated with any of his family, and they were ignorant of his where: through emigrants who had seen hit in were never apprised of the fact that during the long years of his residence in Texas he had prospered in a way and had amassed such a fortune. When it became noised abroad in Texas that the man Clark had died leaving an estate of such magnitude and no heirs to claim, bogus heirs at once began to spring up, and numerous suits were entered to recover it from the allof which were unsuccessful. It was only a Marinda Buckles, wife of Asa Buckles, who was a daughter of Clark, and came to this county after her marriage, some thirty years ago—received, by reading an account of the suits to recover the money, the first intelligence that she had had of her futher’s death and the fortune awaiting her claim. She put herself at once in communi- cation with her sister in Indiana, and confided her plans to lawyers who will at once set about proving Mrs, Buckles and her sister as the lawful heirs of Joun C. Clark, the Texas millionnaire. ‘The estate is intact, none of the claimants thus far having been able to prove their title to it, and Mrs. Buckles and her sister, who can set up a rightful claim, will come in for a good round $1,500,000 each. HE SLICED HIS SWEETHEART. {From the Louisville Courier Journal, Dec. 24.] Charles Oglesby, a colored laborer at the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot, moved to desperation by jealousy, made a fiendish attempt to murder his sweetheart, Kate Strauss, a good-looking mulatto girl, Sunday night. For the past two years Kate und Charles have been living together in unlawful com- panionship. A few weeks ago Kate, becoming tired of her partner, left him and went to live with a col- ored family in the alley between Thirteenth and Fourteenth, Chestnut and Magazine streets. About eight o'clock Sunday night Kate was sitting with a female companion, the tenant of the house, before the fire, with only a gown loosely wrapped about her person, ready for bed, when aloud rap was heard at the door, aud then suddenly the door opened and Oglesby walked in. Going straight to the girl, with an open knife in his hand, he said, “Now, I'm going to murder you!” and with these words he rushed upon her, cutting @ long gash upon her arm. Before he could make a second thrust Kate bounded past him out of the door and through the gate, running barefooted through the snow until she reached her sister's house, on Fourteenth street. Oglesby followed in close pursuit until the door was Closed in his face, when he walked away. Kate's sister dressed her wound and furnished her some clothing with which to return home. Scarcely had she settled down again before the grate than the door was again opened and Oglesby rushed in, As Kate was rising to her feet he knocked her back into her seat by a blow on the head with a chair, Then he broke a small pitcher over her head and kicked her in the breast. ‘Then, as if suddenly chang- ing his plan of murder, the brute gathered up he dress and other garments which she had lain at her feet, and after placing them close by her side, took the coal oil lamp from the shelf, broke it to pieces and scattered the blazing contents upon them. In- stantly the room was haif filled with flame, and but for the timely arrival of some neighbors the house would have been destroyed. Kate, bruised, bleeding and terrified almost to death, again rushed from her room and ran barefooted down the alley through the snow. When near Fourteenth street she fel! to the ground in a helpless condition, and her would-be iuurderer, following in close pursuit, fell upon her. Still bent upon her destruction, he again to beat her on the breast with his big fists, But Kate continued to scream for help, and cries quickly brought a crowd to her rescue, when Oglesby quit his devilish work and ran away. ‘Last night cp ‘ap- peared to be very badly used up, but her injuries are not of a very serious character, Oglesby bas not been arrested, AN ANCIENT PIONEER GONE. [From the Cincinnati Commercial, Dec. 24.] We regret to record the death of Mrs, Jane Pugh, the relict of Joseph Pugh, who was a soldier of the war of 1912, She resided in Lewisburg, s.suburb of Covington, for thirty-five years. She died on Satur- day, She was born in Washington county, Pa., in 1799, came to Cincinnati in 1803, and removed to Cov- ington in 1831, where she has lived ever since. She was married to Joseph Pugh on the 19th of January, ie. died inf1M2. She remained widow, having been the mother of thirteen childr seven ‘of whom are dead, Her youngest living daughter is Mrs. Eldridge, of Howard county, Ind., who is thirty-five years of age. Her son, Mr. Ben- jamin F, Pugh, forty years old, was residing with her at the time of ‘her death, Mr, and Mrs, Pugh were related to the principal families that originally settled and improved the country about and including the now city of Cincinnati. Dur- ing the war Mrs. Pugh wrote many letters to the soldiers, encouraging them to go forward in the de- feuce of the honor and the rights of the nation, She was a woman of rkable intelligence and ‘intel- lectual pride, A few days before her death it became necessury that she should sign her name to a certain legal document. She struggled for half an hour so to do, and finding it impossible, physically, fell back on her couch with an expression of mortification that will never be forgotten by those who were present ssed it. During along and eventful life it st time that she had been necessitated to mark.” She made, however, “her mark” people who surrounded her and knew of the few mothers of the Republic, and there are wany eyes of persons in Ohio, Penn: sylvania and Kentucky which will weep tears of sor- row when they hear that she has been taken from this world (o the other. She was a member of our pioneer association, who, one by one, are passing away. “DEPLORABLE BARBARISM.” (From the Cuthbert (Ga,) Appeal.) Richard Lewis, colored, was brutally murdered on, in Calhoun county, last Friday night, He was carried into @ swamp by masked men and hope the perpetrators of this outrage will be brought to justice and made to feel | the penalty of an outraged law and a civil com- munity. We know not the offence charged against thie negro, but protest against mob jaw under any the laws of the land are ia adequate to punish the guilty and protect the inno- then, indeed, is our condition deplorable and oda a speedy adjustment. A resort to mob law, however, greatly widens the breach, and shows a de: gree of barbarism deplorable in any civil or Christian community. AW-LOGGING IN NEVADA. (From the Truckee (Nevada) Republican.) Achute is laid from the river's brink up the steep mountain to the railroad, and, while we are telling it, the monster logs are rushing, thundering, flying, leaping down the declivity. They come with the ot # thunderbolt, and somewhat of its ot fre and #9 ke follows them—fire their frietion wi descend the 1,700 feet of the chute in In doing 80 they drop 700 teet pe They | trike the deep water of the pond with # report that | can be heard a mile distant, Logs fired from @ ewn- non could searcely have greater velocity than they have at thé foot of the chute, Their average velocity hundred entire fro is over one out in a second trough. distance, and at th instant the mouth their sf mutate dred feet por second, A sugar pine we en tous, What a missile! water is dis nto the air! Like a grand plume of diamonds and rainbows, athery spray | is hurled to the height of @ hun feet. li forms the grandest foantain ever beheld, How the waters of the pond foam and seethe and lash ayainst the shore! One log, having spent its foree by ite mad pinnge into the deep waters, has floated so as to be at of the suit for a consiruction of the will of | right angles with the path of the descending mon- sters, The mouth of the chute is baw ad fifteen fevt above the surface of the water. A huge log hurled from the chute cleaves the air and alights on the floating log. You know how a bullet glances, but can you imagine a saw-log glancing ? end strikes with a heavy sh but glides quickly past for a short distance, then @crash like the reverberation of artillery, the ‘falling log springs 180 feet vertically into the air, and, with a curve like a rocket, falls into the pond seventy yards from the log it struck, SCIENCE, THE ‘‘ULTRA-GASEOUS” STATE OF MATTER— PROFESSOR WILLIAM CROOKES SOLVES THE PROBLEMS OF THE UNIVERSE—HIS ADDRESS BEFORE THE ROYAL SOCIETY, (From the London Athenwum of Dee, 14.) The Royal Society, December 5, William Spottis- wood, Esq., president, in the chair: The following Pee was read: On the Ilumina- tion of Lines of Molecular Pressure, and the Tra- jectory of Molecules,” by Mr. W. Crookes, A dark space environs the negative pole of an ordinary vac- unm tube whenever a ‘k from an induction coil is passed through it. Crookes has made many ; ments in this dark space, which appears to offer a promising field for research to the physicist, and has succeeded in illuminating or makit visible. a ‘layer of molecular bance, which is identical with the invisible layer of molecular pressure or stres that has engaged his attention during some years. Remarkable effects are produced by long continued exhaustion of the tubes or globes subjected to experiment. The velocity of the imprisoned gaseous molecules is 50 greatly accelerated that light is produced as they strike against their walls of glass. A line of molec- ular force can be diverted or twisted by a magne: and if the negative focus be so arranged as to fall o1 astrip of platinum foil the strip melts, An ultr gaseous state of matter may be set up, until, as Mr, Crookes remarks, ‘‘the phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science # new world—a world where matter exists in afourth state, where the corpuscular theory of light holds good, and where light docs not always move in @ straight line; but where we can never enter, and with which we must be content to observe and experiment from the out- side.”* " THE ROYAL SOCIETY, [From the London Times, Dee. 14.) ‘There was an unusually full meeting at the Royal Society last week to hear Mr. Crookes announce his recent discoveries and to witness a repetition of some of the experiments which have led to them, In ex- perimenting with electric discharges in vacuum tubes he has especially examined the dark space which appears round the negative pole of an ordi- nary vacuum tube when the spark of an induction coil is passed through it. He has used different kinds of poles, varying intensity of spark, and ditferent gases, and has from time to time devised fresh ar- rangements for giving greater certitude and ex- actness to particular observations. ‘The very remarkable conclusion to which he has been led is that the phenomena he has witnessed— which are not accidental but are such that he can under like conditions reproduce them—reveal to physical science a new world, where matter exists in u fourth state—ultra-gaseous, he has termed it— where the corpuscular theory’of light holds good and where light does not always move in a straight line. A discovery which all at once adds to our knowledge of the three states of matter (the solid, the liquid and the gaseous) a fourth state, ‘‘ultra-gaseous,” which shows that under certain conditions the rejected New- tonian emissive theory of light is true and which furnishes a plain optical illustration of the fact that light may travel in curves—curves, too, which may be made to continually vary—instead of moving in raight lines, as has been believed it always does, is a discovery which deserves to be culled “epoch-mar! oe Sir. Crookes was very careful to prevent any mis- conception as to what he meant by emissive “light.” His paper will not be ready for publication for some time, but in the notes he read he said that in speak- ing of aray of molecular light he had been guided more by a desire for conciseness of expression than by a wish to advance a novel theory. considered, however, that the comparison in these special circu: stances is strictly correct, and that he is as well en- titled to speak of a ray of molecular or emissive light when its presence is only detected by the light evolved on its falling on @ sujtable screen as he is to speak of a sunbeam in a darkened room as a ray of vibratory or ordinary light when its presence is only to be seen by interposi: an opaque body in its path. In both cases the invisible line of force is spoken of as “a ray of light,” and if custom has made this correct as applied to the un dulatory theory it cannot be wrong to apply the ex- pression to emissive “light.” It is not easy in mere words, without diagrams of the apparatus for reter- ence, to make Mr. Crookes’ recent experiments gener- ally intelligible. ‘Those acquainted with the phe- nomena of the pussage of induction sparks in vacuum tubes and with Mr. Crookes’ various forms, of radiometer will be, perhaps, able to gather some idea’ of the processes from the following explanation :— He has arranged vessels capable of high exhaustion, such as he has used for his radiometers, and through these has induction discharges, sealing in terminals at either end. In this way he has studied the identity of the illuminated lines of molecular ressure with the invisible molecular strain he has bean forse muny years observing. By introducing a cup-shaped fixed disk, which is made the negative pole, he has been able to show the focus of the lines of force, At very high exhaustions the whole bulb becomes illuminated with greenish yellow or, ac- cording to the glass, other colored phosphorescent light. This commences at different exhaustions with ditferent gases. It will not turn a corner in the slightest degree, but radiates from the negative pole in straight lines, casting sharply defined *‘shadows” of any thing placed in its path. On the other hand, the ordinary luminous phenomena of wacuum tubes will pass along any amount of curves and angles. From a study of these shadows Mr. Crookes advances the theory that the induction spark actually illumi- nates the lines of molecular pressure caused by the electrical excitement of the egative pole. He considers that the gree: yellow light is caused by the direct impact of the molecules on the surface of the glass. The “shadows” are not optical, but are molecular shadows, only they are re- vealed by an ordinary illuminating eflect. ‘me- chanical action of projected molecules has been studied, and will be deseribed in the paper. The focus of heat of molecular impact was shown by an experiment allowing the focus trom a nearly hemi! spherical aluminum cup to fall on a strip of platinam foil, when the heat rose to the melting point of plat- inum. The deflection of the stream of molecules by a magnet was also shown, ‘The conclusions aa to the existence of an “‘ultra-gaseous” state of matter arise from theoretical speculations as to the state in which it exists im these highly ex- hausted vessels, The modern idea of the gaseous state is based upon the supposition that given space contains millions of millious of molecul in rapid motion in all directions, each haymy millio: of encounters with others ju a second. case the iength of the mean free path of the molecules is excessively small as compared with the dimensions of the vessel containing it and the properties which constitute the ordinary gaseous state of matter, and which depend upon constant collisions, are observed. By the great rarefaction which Mr. Crookes has, by years of experience, been now able to obtain, the the hits in # second are negligible in comparison with the misses, and the average molecule is allowed to obey its ownfinotious or laws without interferene and if the mean free path is comparable to the di- mensions of the vessel the properties which consti- tute gaseity are reduced to # minimum, and the mi ter becomes exalted to an “ultra-gascous” state, ‘Then new and very decided properties come into play. RUSSIA'S PRECAUTIONS. Another batch of correspondence relating to the Russian movements in Central Asia is printed in the Loudon newspapers of December 14. The only fea- ture that is strictly new is contained in a letter ad- dressed by Lord Loftus to Lord Salisbury, dated St, Petersburg, September 27, 1878: — : On my passage through Baden Baden on the 224 inst. I had an interview with Prince Gortschakofl, who was then residing there, Although His Highness pro- fessed to be ignorant on passing events, he replied, on my referring to the question of Afghanistan, inexactly the samo terms as those used by M. De Giers in his nove to Mr, Plunkett of the Sth inst. stating that the mission of General Stolietotf to val was purely one of courtesy and of a provisioual nature, that the Emperor .could never foi of send) complimentary mis foreign sovereigns 6 whborin, not forget,” said His Highness, Eiperor is au ‘independent sovereign ruler over eiglity million of subjects.” I replied to His High- ness that I was aware of this fact, as also that our gracious sovereign the Queen was ruler over more | than two hundred milion of subjects. “¥ = wid His Highness, “but they are dispersed and scattered, Russian Empire is one and united.” With regard to Afghanistan, I observed to Prince Gortechakoff that | was return ing from a short excursion to Italy, and was con quently without any official information or in- | structions. I could not, however, retrain from | remarking to His Highness that the very fact of sending & mission to Cabul was in my opinion a violation of the compact and engage- ments which Russia had entered into with England, and adding that it was the more incomprehensivie to me, inasmuch a4 on a late occasion, and only a few pefore my departure, M. De Giers had expressly nied to that’ there had been oF | was any intention on the part either of the Emperor or of General Kaufmann of sending ixsion to Cabul, Prince Gortschakofl merely re« peated what he had previously stated, that the mis. | sion was one of courtesy, ang added that probably M. | De Giers at the moment hé gave me the assurance { had not been informed of it, Prince Gortechakoff ob- served that it was true that militery measures had b devised when # war between England \ and Pw o be imminent, but that they had ountermanded and the troops re- called, His Highness then explicitly stated that the Imperial government would maintain their engage- ment with England in regard to Afghanistan, that they had no wish or object to interpose in the affairs oft that Kingdom and that the Ameer of Afghanistan in the event of war would recetve no assistance either [40 armas or noney from Russia, free path of the molecules may be made so long that LATEST FROM BREATHITT. A GLANCE AT THE RECENT BATTLE FIELD--RE- VIEW OF THE SITUATION—HOW TO BESTORE PEACE AND INDUSTRY—A RAILROAD WANTED. [From the Louisville Courier-Journal, Dec, 24.] Camp Taxon, Jackson, Breathitt county, Dec. 19, 1878, The boys have converted the Court House into quite comfortable quarters and are about as lively a set as you will find anywhere. It is now eight o'clock at night, and, having partaken of a good supper, they are amusing themselves in various ways. Some are engaged in conversation, some are playing cards, and achoir, led by Frank Hutchison, of the McCreary Guards, is giving us some old time songs, such as “Massa’s in de Cold, Cold Ground,” “Old Black Joe’ and “My Old Cabin Home.” They are really good singers, and it gives one pleasure to listen to them. I found in the Court House a patent armchair that is just the thing to write on. I light a candle, then melt some of it on the table part of the chair and stick one end of the candle in hot tallow. When it cools I have a first rate light and am fixed for work. The chair sits right at the foot of the judge’s stand, sud commands a good view of the whole room. I have but one objection to the boys, and that isthey are the noisiest set of fellows I ever saw, It would take Jerry Little’s gang and forty others just like it to reduce Camp Taylor to a comparative state of quietude, and the only relief to be found fron the terrible din is to work while the boys are asleep, I presume it would take another civil war to break the boys of this habit; hence there is not much prospect of a change during the Breathitt campaign, COMPLIMENT TO CAPTAIN TAYLOR, Captain Taylor having done his whole duty to the men on the march to Jackson they complimented him to-day by naming the camp after him. He is an ex- cellent officer, and is not only respected but wellliked by every member of the command. Lieutenant Buck commands like @ veteran. Lieutenant Thompson moves about with the quiet air of an old soldier, and does his duty admirably well. Licutenant Swigert provides the eatables, and is at work all the time. Last night and to-day the weather was very cold, but the sun has at last begun to shine on us, and that is enough to fill all with joy after enduring so much rain and snow. The people say the men who came here before were not the best soldiers they ever saw. ‘They say those who are here now conduct themselves in ‘a different manner altogether to the others, and they are much pleased with their appear- ance and manners. They say many of those who were here in 1874 would contract for things to be sent to the quarters to be paid for there, and that was the last of it. Captain "3 men pay promptly for everything they get. This morning Lieutenant Swigert left on a horse for Mount Sterling, where he goes to make arrangements for additional supplies and to attend to other matters connected with mili- tary aifuirs, Jackson has the appearance of a regular military station, and there is but littie business being transacted. It reminds me of the little towns that were overrun by the soldiers of both armies during the war. There are two stores open, but they have only @ limited supply of xoods. The county could not be in a much iore deplorable situation. A REIGN OF TERROR, Areign of terror prevails, and most of the good citizens keep away, fearing they will be assassinated, ‘The different factions are undoubtedly watching each other closely, and are ready to take advantage of the smallest exhibition of weakness. I venture to say that Breathitt county to-day is the worst place to live in in the United States, and no human tongue can tell how the people are going to extricate them- selves from their miserable condition. The first da, we arrived here forty or fifty people were assemble. to see the soldiers march in. Since then the streets have been almost deserted by men in citizen's dress, Iheard one of the Little party say to-day that he wished they would declare martial law in the county, and not stop until peace was permanently made, He said some of the men who belonged to his party de- rved punishment as bad as anybody and he hoped would be meted out to them, None of Bill Strong's particular followers have yet made their appearance, but Judge Lindon, the hewly elected County Judge, told me to-day that Strong would come in before long. From what I have heard 1 believe it is the intention of some par- ties to watch the road and waylay him and his party when they start to town. There will be no shootin; in town, but 1 would not be surprised atany moment to hear of other murders in the county, ‘The read- ers of the Courier-Journal who live far away from here cannot imagine what bitter feclings exist be- tween the factiors, and it does seem that neither party will be satisiied with anything but more blood. OVERAWED BY A FEW MEN, A few men have simply overawed the peaceable and law abiding citizens, and they are permitted to do about as they please. Jerry Little was jn town to- day chock full of apple brandy, and he made it lively forawhile. A man by the name of Markham, who is a sympathizer of Strong, met Jerry this evening and started to say something to him. Jerry stepped up to Markham and very coolly knocked him down with his fist. Markham got up and went away without saying a word or offering any resistance. The two stores were immediately closed by the Ei ndsipk ati) but no other difficulty occurred, Yesterday evening as I passed along the street Isaw two men engaging im a war of words. One of them said, “Did you say I stole your pistol?” The other made some Ly and whipped out a long hbnite and brandished it threateningly in his antagonist’s face, but they sepa- rated without coming to blows. Two men got into a difficulty a short time before that, when one of them knocked the other “‘heels over appetite,” as the soldiers say who witnessed the lick. It the sol- diers had not been here it is more than probable that each one of these difficulties would have resulted in bloodshed. Several of the natives are drunk to-night, and, to use 4 slang phrase, seem to be spoiling tor a fight. They have got so used to violence and blood- shed they do not think anything of jerking out a pis- tol and blazing away at @ man for the least kind of an insult, and in many cases they shoot ata man just to see him run, I was entertained last night for two or three hours by three young men narrating some of the incidents that have happened here in the past few years. Incidents ot men being shot at in the dark, and often hit, are too numerous to mention, and it would require a column to give the names of those who have been hit with rocks and bricks. Not a word had been heard here from Judge Ran- dail, The peopie are unanimous in the opinion that if he does not holdacourt while the soldicrs are here he never will hold one. When he was here before a man drew a murderous looking knife across the Judge's breast and said, “Dama you, we would just as soon cut your heart out as not. Vhat is best to be done it is hard for anybody to say, but some action should be taken vis the Governor, and without any either. ‘There has been a disposition on the part of somo persous to treat the Breathitt county trouble as somewhat of a joke, but the time has gone by for that. Red-handed murder stalks forth in broad daylight over the Breathitt bills and through the valleys, and nearly every tl fis meet might almost be termed a walking arsenal, Men strap their huge pistols around them, and do not attempt to conceal the fact that they carry them constantly. EVERYBODY ARMED, Everybody is provided with the most improved brands of revolvers and rifles, and no people know better how to use them. It is a common thing for men to brag about the men they have killed and about those they intend killing. An old lady told me lust night that she would rather start out on foot and take nothing with her but the clothes on her buck, hunt a place where people live in peace, than to lure what she has in past few years, Hor house, she says, has been fired into time and again, and for many nights she has remained in a state of terror, be sei | every moment to hear ballets crashing through the windows, doors and weather- Dourding. Her house is already full of bullet holes, aud it the strife continues she will have to stop them up to keep out the cold. I say in ali seriousness that Lam not writing to create a sensation, but aia simpl: wiving a statement of affairs that really exist hera, y would rather live on the Western plains smd take the chanves of being sealped by Sitting Bull than to live in Breathitt county at the present time. Governor MeCreary will not [i Seg the duty he owes to the State until he brings about a different state of affairs here, or at least makes very determined effort to do so. If it juires @ regunent of soldiers to accomplish the desirable end they ought to be mustered in and sent here, There is one thing certain, and that is it is going to be more trouble than the Governor dreams of to stop the coutinued flow of blood and inake Breathitt county a place where men can go about their daily avocations without the grim spectre of death staring them all the time in the face, A BAILWOAD WILL 4AVE THE COUNTRY, I hold to the opinion expressed in a former letter that the improvement of the Kentucky Kiver and the building of a railroad through this region will go far toward redeeming it from the bloody grip of thedesperado. The people here have but little else to do now except to nurse their private grievances and kill their enemies whenever the opportunity offers. If they had « market for their vast beds of coal, iron, jead and timber they would go to work in earnest, and through their desire to possess themselves of ® larger supply of this world’s goods than they can now claim to they would forget, to @ great extent these petty feuds, and learn that there is something better to liv: for than the gratification of personal hate and revenge. ain, internal improvement would soon turn the tide of tinmigration toward one of the richest mineral regions on the globe, and it would not be loug before the habits of the people would undergo a complete change. Those who now live here in comparative idleness would be ashamed to stand by and see their er above them, and would either go ves or gather together what little they have and go to some other part of the world. Furthermore, the interests of the Commonwealth, regardless of the state of affairs that exixte here, demand that these improvements should be made, and it is to be hoped that the members of the next Legisiature will think more upon this subject than about their prospects of becoming statesmen, When they meet together next winter they will have no United States Sevator to elect, no Bigger bank bill perhaps to consider, and, the —- question being settled for all time to come probably they will cou- descend to legislate upon something that will benefit their constituents. CANNEL COAL HEDS. The cannel coal beds up here are inexhaustible, and they contain the best quality to be found any- | Jencks, of the police force, came alo b gt If the needed improvements were made here hille would reverberate with the sound of the woodman’s axe aud the whistle of the locomotive and steamboat, and employment would be given to thousands of men, I want to renew the invitation to the members of the next Legislature to visit this country in @ body and view the enormous wealth that is here, waiting, as it were, for an owner, for I feel confident they’ will yo back and vote for the Internal Improvement bill without a dissenting voice. I certainly never appreciated the value of our own ‘Slate until the Breathitt war brought me to the richest portion of it, aud the men who have come here to preserve the peace say the same thing. Mr, Samuel Patrick, of Frenchburg, Menifee county, is a te for representative from Montgomery, Menifee and Wolfe, and the pros- pects are that he will be elected, He spent last win- ter at Frankfort, and will be remembered be aosne fread visited there during the sitting of the Legisla- ‘ure, f KING OF THE, OX DRIVERS. John Faulkner, who drove the ox wagon that con- tained the poppies for the command on the late trip, is undoubtedly the king of the ox drivers. He dreve ali the way with nothing but an ordinary suit of clothes on, and never once complained of the cold. After driving all day he showed no signs of fatigue’ whatever, and was ready to scout around every night in search of adventures, He can sleep on the ground all night without covering and get up feeling as if he had slept in a warm feather bed. BURIED TREASURE. ONE OP WALKER’S OLD“ OFFICERS WHO KNOWS WHERE ALL THE FILIBUSTER'S PLUNDER IS— HE BELIEVES THE SECRET IS HIS SOLE PROP- ERTY-—-A LONG TALKED OF EXPEDITION TO DIG FOR THE BULLION. New Haven, Dec. 24, 1878. “Yes,” said William E. Lyons to a representative of the Hap, as he stood in his shirt sleeves in his cosey saloon in the basement of his house in Bristol street, “there is only one man living, I believe, who knows just where the brave filibuster, William Walker, buried his plunder in Nicaragua a few days before his capture and execution, This man is my wife's first cousin, and he is not now in this country, but he is the sole survivor of the little party who put those five mule loads of gold and silver under ground,” “Have you ever tall with him about his secret or thought of joining him in an expedition for the treasure ?”” “Oh, yes; we have talked the matter over many a time, and have always intended to get hold of the treasure some time, but we have never yet had money enough to carry the thing through, But the notice in the Heratp brought the subject again to my mind, and if any one is fitting out in New York an expedition to get the treasure I want to join it, and I can get my wife's cousin to come too, and he is the man they want. “Where is this man now and what is the history of his connection with Walker?” DARING FEATS WITH WALKER. “The name of the only man who knows where to dig for that treasure is Samuel Lyons, and his his- tory would be an interesting one if I could tell it all to you. He is fifty years old and has had a career full of adventure. Nothing but the greatest good luck has preserved his lite. He was born in a little settlement @ mile or two from Dublin, and at ten years of age he joined the British Navy. It was twenty years from that time when his parents first heard of him again. After staying in tho British Navy for some years he deserted and joined the American Navy, From this he agaiy deserted and became a member of the band which Walker took to Nicaragua, He was one of Walker's officers, and I have otten heard him tell of the danger he was in, even with the great filibuster, because of his wilful- ness. At one time, for insubordination, he and twenty more were sentenced by Walker to be shot, but Walker told him he would give him oue more chance. He was about to capture a town, and he pro- posed that Lyons should plant the invader's flag on the highest tower in the place, in advance, and aid the rest in getting inside the walls. Lyons took the chance, but said he must have at least sixty men. ‘There was a call for volunteers, and every man in the command wanted to go. He chose sixty, and went to the town. Here they guve themselves up, pretending to desert tromjWalker. Once in the town they soon made friends and before the citizens had seen through the trick, Lyons had planted the filibuster’s flag upon the citadel, and his companions had opened the gates to Walker and the rest of his band. HOW THE TREASURE WAS BURIED. “By his bravery and strategy Samuel became one of Walker's most trusted nen, und he was one of the four officers who helped Walker bury his treasure, There were five mule loads of it—gold and silver, money and bullion, including a great deal which had been plundered from the chu , the chapels and private mansions, At eleven o'clock one moonlight night Walker and four officers buried the treasure under a big tree near the brow of abill. I have heard Samuel tell how they scraped away the leaves on the ground before they dug the pit. I have a pretty yood idea of the locality myself, but he knows just where it is, and can find it even if the tree has been re- moved. ‘The treasure was buried just before the two final engagements which crushed the hopes of Walker, The next morning after that little moonlight excursion the first uf these en- gagements occurred, and in it two of the officers who had seen the treasure buried were killed. After that engagement the army, if it could be called one, lived on bananas alone for two weeks, in a ba- nana plantation, and had a hard time of it. en came the last engagement, in which Walker, Samuel and the rest were captured. There is only one of the four accompanying officers who is not accounted for; but a4 nothing was heard from him after that en- ment Samuel has always believed that he was ulled then or executed with the captives who met death in that way. He certainly was not with the little party that so wondertully escaped with Samuel, and who, [ think, were the sole survivors of that en- agement. If he be dead, or rather if he died then, Samuel alone has the secret. SAMUEL LYONS’ LUCKY ESCAPE, “The story of Sam's escape will read like a romance. He i into prison with the rest to await execution. Now the wife of the Governor of Nicaragua was an Irish girl, born in Buterstown, a little place near Dublin, who had been transported when young for shoplifting. She called tor the list of the names of the condemned filibusters, and when she saw Sam's name she insisted upon seeing him, because she had kuown bis family at home. She did seo him, wud the result of their meeting was Sam's escape, for she sent him and several others of her countrymen in four boats out to an English man-of- war, and they were taken to London on board of her. “Sam has never been back to this country, but I have been over there two or three times and seen him, and talked about going for the treasure. I was over in 1867 and 1868 and again in December, 1876, and we made up our minds to go alone as soon as we could get money enough to carry out a little scheme we decided upon. Sam works in the Lairds’ yard, in Birkenhead, now, and I know I can get him to join an expedition with me if the projectors of it will pay our expenses. Yet we are not anxious to jojn one, for in a few years we expect to have enough money to get us there alone, and if we once get there we will et that treasure sure. I don’t believe there is a iving man that knows where it is except Sam. Ihave frequently read of projected expeditions after this treasure, but [never had reason to think that any one ever found any of it, and I don’t believe anybody can unless they are guided by Samuel Lyons. Some day we two will go down there and build a little house right over the spot, and when we come back here there will be nothing left in that hole in the ground.” HOPING FOR GREAT THINGS. Mr. Lyons is @ robust, dark complexioned, good looking man, ap; tly about thirty-five years old. He talked very intelligently @nd frankly to the Henatp representative, and seems like a man of in- domitable pluck, If ever goes to work with that cousin Samuel to get th@ treasure his plans will be well laid and of @ nature to compel success, and Samuel Lyons’ luck, after saving his head so many times, can hardly desert him when he tries to uu- cover William Walker’s buried plunder, A CHRISTMAS MAD DOG. The Hartford Courant of December 26 gives an ac- count of a mad dog which created much alarm on Christmas Day by biting people and dogs in that town. The Courant says:—''The Needham dog next attacked David Phelps and bit him in the leg. A Mr. Foley was passing and the dog went savagely after him and caught him by the coat, but did not succeed in biting him. The animal next put his jaws on to the leg of & young nan, but the bite was harmless, as the teeth struck against the top of a boot and did not CR cektny Fo ‘The froth from the dog's mouth was upon the young ian Bente. ‘By this time a crowd had begun to collect and a gay young mau armed with # revolver fired threo shots at the animal without effect. Then Officer wnd taking a double barrelled shotgun followed the dog into Morgan street and into an alley a little way down the street, ‘As he went into the alley the dog was facing him and made a dive for him. He discharged one barrel of the gun and the shot proved harmless, whereat the animal, now thoronghly enraged, came at him fu- riously, The officer was now in # critical condition. A crowd had gathered in the vicinity, aud he must be careful about firing as the dog turned into the street. Considering his safest position to be a stand- ing and defensive one, he stood his ground and the dog came at him on a jump with jaws wide open, and as he came into close quarters the officer let him take the barrel of the gun into his mouth, and as he seized it with his teeth fired, and fortunately the weapon was discharged, There was not much left of the dog. The first noticeable thing after the explosion was a dog collar flying through the air, and what was left of the dog was lying around loose. Officer Jenck though an old soldier, says the position he held for few seconds was not ® very cheerful one, and he really expected that the dog would get the better of him, but when he saw the collar safely removed he jan to feel safe himeelf. lt was certainly courageous act on the part of the officer, The dog was eighteen years old,” OUR GOMPLAINT BOOK. Nore.—Letters intended for this column must be accompanied by the writer's full name and address to insure attention. Complainants who are unwilling tocomply with this rule simply waste time in writing. Write only on one side of the paper.—Ep. HERALD. MARKET SAVINGS BANK, HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1878. To rng Eprror or tHE HEeRatp:— Please ask through your columns how many more years we must wait for a dividend from the receiver of the above bank. So mana 7aene bas without a report of some kil DI WHAT DID HE DO IT FoR? To rue Eprror or THE HERALD:— On the evening of the 23d, as car No. 156 of the Belt Line Railroad was passing through Fifty-ninth street, the conductor of the car had a dispute with three of the passengers who were slightly intoxicated, ‘As the car passed the Twenty-eighth precinct station house he called on Sergeant Russell, who im: clubbed one of the three men in the most oo manner ever wit LOOKERS ON. A DANGEROUS CROSSING. To rue Eprtor or THE HERALD: Isaw in the “Complaint Book” weeks ago that-at Ninth avenue and Sixtieth street the elevated railroad was dropping oil and water upon the crossing. The water has now turned into ice, and I saw, a few days ago, an active young man get a dangerous fall at this point, I do not reside in this section of the city, but where I see @ dangerous nuisance, at Kingsbridge or the Battery, Ideem it my duty to report it, J. F. A QUESTION OF PIE. To THE Eprror or THE HERALD:— ‘Who says we Americans don’t know how to make pastry? Are not half the digestions in New England already ruined by the native pie? Any American woman, without half trying. can make a pie or pud- ding that can spoil the stomach of toug! ostrich alive, I myself have eateu pies at the tables of godly men that’ had crusts thick and hard enough for shoe soles, Give the American kitchen its due, T insist. upon it. LEMON CREAM, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? To THe Eprror ory THe Heratp:— Please allow me to state an occurrence which hap pened on the Christopher street crosstown line, 3 entered the carat Eighteenth street and handed to the conductor a one dollar bill, and received in change a little package marked, “One Dollar,” but there were only seventy-five cents in it. Ido not know who isto blame for this, whether it is the com- any or the conductor or the counter of the money, but if it is the fault of the company the police shor look after it. If the fault of the conductor or coun- ter the company should see that proper persons are employed by them, and I would advise all passengers on these cars either to only have the exact amount to pay the fare with or to be very careful in regard to their change. L THE VALUE OF A PATENT. To rae Eprror o¥ THE HERALD:— I wish to state a case to show how little protection there is in owning a patent in this country. A valu- able surgical instrument was invented in 1874 and letters patent duly issued from the Patent Office at Washington. ‘The patenteo employed a salesman to put the goods on the market, who, after making large sales and getting the article thoroughly in- troduced to the profession, ascertains that tho same article was invented some years since in Paris, prior to the iesuing of the patent in the United States. Hearing that this invalidated? the United States patent, he immediately takes the business into his own hands, totally ignoring the patentee, has the goods manufactured and sells them right and left, without let or hindrance, thus virtually stealing the business. I.wish to ask if, after tho Patent Office has once issued a it, it isnot valid and subject to protection? If not, wi redress has a patentee against the person who steals the business? JUSTICE, MODEL EMPLOYES, To rae Eprror or THE HERALD:— The Third Avenue Elevated Railroad Company, although slow in warming its cars, generously sup- plies stoves in its waiting rooms at the stations, Last Tuesday was s cold day, and the’heat of the stove in the Fifty-ninth street (down track) waiting room would have been welcome to half a dozen ladies and children who were waiting there for a trainabout noon, to say nothing of the maie passengers. But one employé of the station sat on a high stool on one side of the stove, another em- ployé, spparently an extra ticket seller, sat on @ chair on another side of the stove with his feet up, anda third employé stood in front of the stoye warming his back until the time came for him to make the announcement, “All aboard,” One of these three (the ticket taker) was too deeply absorbed in the of @ novel to observe a number of ladies and children who stood shivering near him. I may add that the only small space near the stove vacant by the three employés was occupied by a fat man, who, although he wore no badge, did not leave by the train, and so was probably a visitor of the em- joyés, FROZEN OUT. THE EIGHTH REGIMENT. To Tux Eprror oy THE HeRatp. 1 desire to call the attention of the officers of the Eighth regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., to the present condi- tion of tle regiment in numbers. I was present at the drills held in the State Arsenal this month, and was much surprised at the small number present, At the right wing drill the command was formed with four commands of eight files. ‘The number in all waa not quite one hundred. At the left wing it was just as bad, the command being formed with four com- mands of eight files, some of the companies not hav- ing over six files present. At the battalion drill it was just about the same—eight commands of ten files, tho largest company not having over thirty men present officers and all combined. Now, what is the cause of this small number f serena 4 Is the regiment going to pieces for want of better officers? I think it may be so. Cannot something be done to save this old regiment? I would propose that the colonel and board of officers offer to the different companies some inducement, such as a medal to the company that recruits the largest number of men for the next six months; that companies give some kina of entertainments to which their friends can come free and have # good time, as has been done in the Ninth regiment. I think that if all the companies did this and the officers did their part the regiment might be saved, Otherwise the regiment will be mustered out after next inspection, as they will not have over two hundred and fifty men left by that time. FIRE INSURANCE, To tum Eprron ov Tux Henap:— Fire insurance seems & strange business to be suf ferin, ression, Are fires leas frequent n or ‘oo conser have less property to Tea 4 Henaty, December 25. As usual you have hit the nail onthe head and opened up ® subject to inquiry of the deepest im- portance to the companies themselves as well as to the public at large. Iwas reminded of this question this morning as, riding down Eighth avenue, I saw, about Twenticth street, a dry goods store still closed up, without a sign of repair much less resumption of business, a fire having occurred there, I think, about a month ago. What is the mat ter? I fear, from what I hear elsewhere, it is that no adequate settlement can be obtained from the com- panies. The delay is fatal to tho business man, but all in favor of the insurance companies in forcing ao- Pepe where the losses are not fairly estimated, man goes to insure against loss iy” fire and recei a policy which he rarely criticises; it is laid away he thinks he is safe against loss should a fire occur; but when the time unfortunately comes round when he has to. make a claim then he finds out all about it. Arbitration is provided for and its terms laid down by parties whom long experience has rendered wise and crafty, and they are unscrupulously and exactingly carried out. When the companies have to choose an arbi{rator 4 stereotyped edition is in wait ing, whose remuneration in the present and future cases: nds upon his success in hapa | by cum ning and chicane, the efforts of the inj: man to right himself. are resorted to, also, which are most ruinous to the business gen of the com munity. This is not arbitration—it. on fraud. ‘The premiums are taken very regularly, and & man may have been paying thousands of do! annually for twenty years and then be subject to crucial tests to defeat his jast claims, Think of your paper being stopped for # month in case of a small fire, and you will sympathize with a business man of moderate means who is not able to compete with a united phalanx of moneyed corporations. If the officers expect to keep up large salaries and dividends by this process they will tind themselves disappointed, mrance business will show worse and Worse every year until some really equitable sys- tem be devised by the people themselves. This is a Di important question for this city, and you will be doing @ great service to a very helpless class, de- serving of the greatest consideration, by giving it some of your tive attention. A. B. G BESSIE AND THEODORE. (From the Indianapolis Journal, Dec, 25.) ‘Miss Bessie Turner, of ‘Tilton-Beccher memory, is & momber of the company now playing “A Cole- brated Case” at the Opera House. Last night Theo dore Tilton attended the play nd from one boxes witnessed Miss Bess acting. his thoughts reverted to auother ict