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u ch7 5 -trees grow ncrc. am.
V,,' old. 1 1 I hurch. m Pur""'-
honest such mi f r.
ft" rffiM" brought and set
in "" tnew the mvstic art ,
JutiL Madonna, dim with ram
And touch of pious rips that I
Tired Ion?, tnen came miu .T. '
And loved; and took her to my heart.
Vor monk in black, nor Capuchin,
Nor priest of any creed Is seen
A sua browned woman, old and tall,
,nd still is any shadow is,
si-als fo from out the mossy wall
With m. ve keys to toowiuuu".
r, mea riovly forth and foll.
-v.. v.tr sand all with drooping w
wins
Three mu?e brown babes of hers; anl tlu
0 they aivi beautiful as slyP.
And on the pouting 'Pf.f
if weet hire's the evenaunj seal
Of silence that theh
on this dd ifnd- sm ; lor
1 would fojiset. "ixfier creep
Their heJpekujnc 1 7
somehow iw your g day
M.e. 'u,-,, xuier in Overland Monthly.
EEATBICE CENCI.
Tlli: IsrAVTIFUL
., .mrv-A SAD
D ARISTOCRATIC ROMAS
c-rr.nY OF DEGENERATE AND
i. v-NTIolS UM.Y
r .... v.,.i..r,.i
Ity !lU?-a' i'' .nnilitu worshipping at the
...nil .Mill.
X . . . - n
ai.d Mme. De Stael,
IruU S Itor of Corinne. are two inci
1 .ar-ib-d hv centuries of time and a
i'-' MTJW 1 f , r-M,.r.linari' events, vet
.,!!
.11 ol ciuauiu'" j --
'lain
1,. in, HltVPOl a lUilk iu.".....v
l.-.r the'land of f urple skies
fry
.lonm. nt of the singularities of feminine
1 .... .. l .i,,l ImJiuii unnii'il
juinuii j'""-r
,.. i:. .. tiii.itrifn lai uj.1 ....... . -
l:iltllie.
i he I I1C OI umiti""
has bren aim
t unbroken lor neariy mree
tlioiisimd year
I'nder a rude republic and
urnler a powc
an,l un U". Cli
.,,ri- and in t
! empire, urn"" 7'-'"'V-anitv.
in a blaze of ioI;ticaI
iopths of social degradation,
has always been the same ;
i-,',V.n fcininini
- . . .i
? . I . .. t . . mi.uf fliurm Ii'iit
C'ltill'' tO the lllliuauua mii.
I'. ' "...i . ii.n r:i-(ini nio.t nernlexini;
,,z Historv, a'-sotiated with Italian
w il-i'c'V it liwwiiiM fascination.
Tvjs' with the story of the Cenci. It lias
, wi.tu'red the painter' the poet, the historian,
' 1 the roveiht. Ouidj aided himself to im-v"'',-aii'tv.
immortalizing the beauty of I5ea
":, e- Shelley id his tribute in a tragedy,
h "fiin'd aj-olc.-v for one whose ftory had capti-
,e vj hiui, and (Jtierrazzi has garlanded her
. , ,rv wirh j.viic of his most enchanting
- .... 1 . .
,:d hoii'i'.ieLs, Jiisionaus nave arpeuiacia
i'i L- 5' .:ei;e of her crimes a shrine of
..p-nry. Hvnm alone was just.
niHrtvred
J I is gen
t.'.e.'l
wi.eii he told filivlley that the tale of
terror.
upon wtiicn ne ,Jiao: jouiuiea nis
'-j'eiiV iWfluiaii.v unuraiuunc, uaaust
!:'.,: of the actors command full bympathy.
Ti:e late of Ie Cnstine's drama and Shelley's
tr-iir'tlv ju.-tifit-s Byron's criticism.
'1 l.e painter, however, is the one to whom
:!., heroine of this talc of horror is largely in-ilri.u-d
for iii-r popularity. Few old paintings
Lave been copied as often as (iiiido's portrait
ut IW'.i i' i-1 'eiici. .Since the days of chrouios
ih- ace is l'ami!i.:r to all. Shelley Peaks of
tl.c oiiiuai putrait as "a-just representation of
ol "the lovelie.-t specimens of the work
i:i.in!.ip of i:ut:ir'." (Juido represents her
i.ial h.un-.l'with folds of white drapery, from
wLuli i.fr golden hair escapes and falls about
l.er neck. 1 he head-dress is historical, alr
:!;i:!h the tradition, that accepted by Shelley,
:!.at the arri-t painted the portrait from nature,
liriivin the imprisunment of the original, is
i.iit tr.i tiuid- K-.-ni did not remove to Koine
until .ionic years had elapsed after death ol
"tW.r'.ce. The iM.rtrait, therefore, is hleal in
;.,.i:t a: ulthotigh projjiibly not unlike the
,'i.m:i.i!. -iuce the artit may have been guided
!..- reprtnt-tion by the. desci iptiuii of jer
."jiis who liad .-een her.
Tlie tory of Beatrice Cenci ha been told by
writers, and varied judgments have been
el upon her. She w:ls condemned and
;:Vi-:ed death for the murder of her father, yet
.-:ie h.; nevt-r been wanting of defenders. T
'::ie .-hi; appearetl an angel ot beauty ami in
tiuceace, while o'hcis have been content to
urL-a u:Iu it-:it provov'atio!i to justify the act
if kii.ing. iui-rrazzi is one of the former and
J-iiWlry one of the latter. Tiie novelist insists
iijxj.'i her entire innocence and puritj-, while
the dramati-.t maintains his plot by aupposing
:!.at the daughter commits parricide to pre-
her fither's incestuiuis purposes. Neither
i -m-4nii.-ti.jii is true. Of lateyears, the records
"t Vm trial have Teen consulted, and the facts
a'-i'li.-red theretnm are sudicient to guide the
::;vl!i.,'.'!!t iri juiror to a fair judgment.
The t.'pnci l'ainiiy was one of the oldest and
in.K aristocratic families of modem Home.
It Lead ihinng the latter part of the sixteenth
'iitury wah Count Francisco Cenci, the father
: lVatiice. Vt'hatever difference of opinion
'aay t xi; in reference to th dauUtcr, there is
i "in-in itV-nnc-e t.j the lather. lie waa
'ItpMved and demoniacal beyond anything
:iiat we can comprehend in these days. II.
;.' "!:. oi great will and talent, but a!
all hi
:fv
was direct 1 to the commission of
His victim were many, but the prin-
iaies.
'pai ones were ineinbers of his own family.
V. that turn- tho laws of ancient Rome, giving
"'the father the complete power over the rebt
; i the faintly, were -till practically in force at
it so tar as tl nobility were concerned,
omit (.tIla i-itTci-ed the authority of this
liia, despotism in thacrneli-tmllnnerios.
hUt two of
wliom were sent to there craves
roa-h hi
is instrumentality. He frequently
Termed id
this
. 1 w v ti 111.1 n i . m in
rtV;:"""1110" ot 1411 w children. His crimes
Hi rT i011. 'J'-' iat notwithstanding his
I; ft ,f. 1C tWiW c,,1,rtailtly entangled in the
!;!'?. ' w f 1 Iaw' a:"1 was obliged to extricate
fhi-e,! t L h" ,aV.,,,p't of lieavy linos. It is
o 'l' urev.-nuo of the irovernmont that
V tar... . : .... " 1
.,uu:..i?i ... . J
government that
- '"ra:es wen
",' "id villain.
ia
no Jinny to get rid
in l i'.is J
its (inn v e. ... ..;.,.. 1 f i.:. t
i i , . ''"noiniui 1113 aeconu
..lid
i: -i 'r ,!lc,rw. two sons, Giocoiuo
V!l"t!;ei-
1 , - nnim:i iic-airice
living, but
:i r..i... .. . 1 - '
had
.v.'. 1 i r.'.Tii
imprisonment
to
Vc:i in i,., I . , l l umier ms
. u.urrieil
a provincial noble.
-"; i,ij
rc- not allowed to enter the
wn.-r, the Count resided with
atii.-f.. The latter was treiitrn
H-..I1.,..
and P.
i .-.. i
'i use
a
l'ns .in-r than a dam'hti.r fib..
;a. th.s tnuoU-tv.
O ' - ' . V.
eil ttVeilttHMl nod f.u'nn.
vhc- ha 1 inherited a large for-
t ::.i ;
"""M e-ra;
--ifr-.j ,..v , , !. oy marriage, nor
. vWV'h lhe UtIUO!it Jealousy.
a!'d in .:i-, t,'.A"4iJl'I'-,,1Klng to the estate.
UlS Hll'llm ill. I... .
t.iif ..'i
. 'cut rice s n.a-, ,l"ns were unavailing.
. ji n . . . :
'Jticeof a v,. ir,,T I a'" liad attracted the
as ab ,ut
rat2" -? ot "oWe family, who
rro is (j,,.;. ,a, .pnestiiood. Guido
iniy ... ... ;".." u?
"g the handsomest
jam!,..;....
.iu.l:' lu n ...II r. ...
c n clb ism or iir
bcannz,
no was
son of a widowed
gifted mentally aa
une talents, and
Beatrice was reciprocated, and the
encourage.! l.v T ...i .. ; . .IC
'j:i!!i. i: -- -"y iucrezia.
the atl'air.
no to enter t
tie
house. (tnn1wi;..
tollowed
"r 'oar.ce
... .. -..ii iue amour progressed
of the count. intensifieJbvhi-
-o.i o.i
"'J.i.-v r l.:
. i ma ?ucces
nil nvfT c.-... ,
imi ri n.i
.' rn trl,enVe rxtreniit-- Beatrice
-' uar " the turban castle and close-
lhrougulhe
i
tue
treachery of some
ciUllt"s
es.
pica ai me assistance of tho
.k r 'Jr' a-s ei aoieu to cam nrrw.
"ath -V .,,;au wa,i concerted be
a ruan was conri-rt.iH
wif,
thrri-i VW ?1- r MIU1 lover tor their
n. , : . who dc'aih of the unt. Two
'.anieii Min i. j . n.- . .
.i n. .i.. i i
'.' "tercent l.; - ' ciuujuo, were inreci
-e I,, -t ' t..hlIn"1 the4,ad. ami dispatch him.
- Tin ?.n-7"ly the return of
victim ,l, lsl ycH at setliff le in
lead.
yXj " ffher felldes-
h-vtr ,f ht uu.;' u!-1; J.-" L-i was during the
ui
f i: as i.hv ; ".T" lllarly
I a skitn-i.i .... t
I LU'lva; of the
A second plan was arranged. It was ue
termined to inunler the old man in his bed.
Accordingly, the assassins were admitted by
Ueatrice, and one-third of the blood money
paid them in advance. The daughter admin
istered an opiate to her father, and while lie
was sleeping under its influence the bravos
wure introduced into the chamber. Again,
the two women and the lover awaited to hear
of the death or mm wuo opposed their napTu-
nv Acain, they were disappointed. The
two assassins returned in haste declaring that
thev could not kill the old man who slept
so "neacefullv and looked so venerable and
helpless. v L i ueainue omrieii lunuru
ti,.tii in a ra$re. "Vile braggarts." she ex-
claimed, "is this the way you rob the people
of their money .' bince your cowardice will
have it so. I myself will kill my father."
Strengthened by the girl's determination, the
men returned, and completed the murder.
The body was thrown from the window into
the garden beneath, but in its fall was caught
by tne limbs of a tree, and there hung sua
jiended until late the next morning. It was
given out that the old man had- fallen acci-
cidentally, and had been killed by the limbs
entering his hotly.
History leaves it doubtful as to the state of
intercourse between the Count and Beatrice.
Some authorities say that she was forced to
submit to his incttuous embrace, while oth
ers say that the murder intervened before his
design was consumated. There appears to be
no doubt, however, that Le entertained a pas
sion for tier ana maue unnoiy advances to
hr.
It seems that no suspicion of foul plav was
aroused until the conduct of the assassins gave
occasion for it. They received a larce reward
for i heir work, and repaired to Naples to en
joy it. mere imprudent conduct excited
suspicion, ana inquiries were made m the vil
lage near which the castle was situated. A
washer-woman told a curious story about
some biooav sueets, and otner evidence was
gathered. The two bravos were arrested and
nut to the torture. One of them confessed
everything. The Cenci family were arrested
and imprisoned in Koine. (Juido was warned
in time, and made his escape. It is related
that he cut off his hair, bcRrimmed his face,
and acted the part of a charcoal burner. lie
Jiought a donkey and some sacks of coal, and
went about the streets selling. In this dis-
ki.t.jv., n iiu .11.1 II1VU1U CVII.IU II ill! auu
his hands filled with onions, he passed the
ii-lllA in! i I . i - ..i.Mith ctiiftj..4 irilli I. v..... 1
guards who were in search of him, and made
his way to the frontier.
Y hue in prison Beatrice developed those
wonderful or cnaracter that have made
ncr tamous. All the other members of the
family, guilty and innocent, confessed when
put to the torture. Beatrice alone maintained
her innocence. Again the torture was an-
plied, but her fortitude was unshaken. Her
wonderful beauty is said to have moved the
heart of the executioner, and her heroism
aroused the sympathy of all Koine. The
Judge was suspected of yieldintr to humane
feelings, and was removed and another sub
stituted. But all in vain. Tlie tirl continued
to cry: "I am innocent. 1 am innocent."
Mar.io, the bravo who had confessed, was in
troduced into her presence in order that his
testimony might be confirmed ; the law re
quiring tliat a confession obtained by torture
must be repeated m the presence ot the ac
cused in order to make it available. When
confronted by her he was so dazzled by her
beauty and daunted by her courage that he re
voked all he had said, and rather than crim
inate her, he expired on the rack.
Meantime, public interest in the case became
intense, lhe high rank ot the family, the
odious reputation of the deceased, and, more
than all. the beaut v and fortitude of Beatrice
combined to increase this feeling. Farinaccio,
the most eminent advocate in Koine, volun
teered to defend tlie accused. It is said that
the confession of Beatrice was obtained
through his influence with her, and that he
advised her to make confession and rely upon
justifying the act. Other accounts say that it
was obtained by bringing all the other members
ot the family into the room of torture with
her, when her eldest brother exhorted her to
confess, whereupon her fortitude i-ave way.
and she exclaimed; "You, the head of our
house, wisli for its dishonor. It is your will ;
then be it so.
Notwithstanding the efforts of renowned
counsel, the sentence of death was passed upon
the two sons, Lady Lucrezia, and Beatrice.
The I'ope afterward reprieved the youngest
son. The ieople of the city were greatly ex
cited when the judgment of the court was
made known, and many petitions for a re
bearing of the case Vi ere presented to the Tope.
In consideration of these petitions, he ordered
that the execution be staj-ed for twent3'-one
days, but during this interval an event oc
curred which precipitated the fate of this un
fortunate family. A young nobleman of the
St. Croce family murdered his mother in a
most shocking way, and tied. It is said that
old Count Cenci had advised that crime. The
Pope received the intelligence of this murder
with the most impetuous indignation. De
c'aring that parricide was beccniinj epi
demic in his states, he refused all further in
tercession on behalf of the Cenci family. The
immediate execution of their sentence" was or
dered. At 11 o'clock in the niht, it was an
nounced to them that they must die the next
morning. They spent the balance of the night
in dress-making.
Upon receiving the announcement of her
doom Beatrice ordered the costume and head
dress in which she is represented in the famous
painting by (Suido Keni. All that night the
carriages of the nobility were driving rapidly
about the city, the occupants eager to obtain
a pardon. But all in vain. The next morn
ing the two women and the elder son wereled
to execution. The terrible scene was wit nosed
lyr an immense concourse of people. Bca
trice'f firmness was unshaken to the last.
Standing upon the scalfold she prayed alaud
in language so eloquent that the bystanders
were melted to tears. A moment later the ex
ecutioner held something out in his hand,
and cried in a loud voice: "This is the head
of Beatrice Cenci, a Koman maiden."
The suburban villa was granted to the car
dinal nephew, on condition of making it a
garden in which the Koman public might be
free to enjoy itself forever. This condition
wan faithfully kept, and. according to Mr.
Hillard. the Villa Borghese is the most perfect
model of the beauty and magnificence of
which tlie Italian garden is susceptible. It
was kept open to the public from the begin
ning of the seventeenth century till 1819,
since which time the gates have been closed.
B03 GI3B0N3 "3LIKD."
Jndiro Servis, the Associate Justice of the
First District Territorial Court of Montana, is
justly celebrated for his leal learning, and is
greatly beloved by his friends. Ifc is stern,
ujright and honest. But with all his legal at
tain nients, he is not the greatest man at cards
in the Territory. It has been said that he did
not know the jack of hearts from the acc of
diamonds.
In the Kadersburg mining camp, three per
sons were silting around a table in one of those
log cabin saloons, "with a billiard-table at
tached," which are so common in mining
camps, playing a small game of three hand
poker. A quarrel ensued, which resulted in
an aggravated case of assault and battery.
Thi did not end the affair, for at the next
term of the court, at the head of the docket
stood the Territory of Montana vs. A. L. Parks,
for assault and battery with intent to kill
on the body of Andy Anderson.
The trial casie on, and the only witness to
tho atfray was Bob Gibbons, who was the
third in the game. Having been eworn, he
was directed to tell the court and jury every
thing lie knew about the affair. After clear
ing his throat he commenced by stating that
"Me and Parks and Anderson were over at
Ilalbeck's saloon the second day after the
election, when Parks proposed that we should
have a game of poker. All agreed to it. and
we went into the back room and sat down
to the game; did not know tiere was any
hard feelings between Tarks and Anderson,
or I would not have played, but heard after
ward" Here Bob was interrupted by the court,
who directed hini to keep all hearsays to him
self, and confine himself strictly to the facts of
the case.
The witness continued : "Well, we sat
down to the table. Anderson sat there, Parks
here and I there (making a diagram on the
clerk's table). Parka dealt the cards: I went
blind; Anderson went blind over me, and
Parks would not see him."
The Judge, who is a little deaf, was in the
habit of making an ear-trumpet of his hand,
and throwing his head a little forward and
sideways Having gone through this pan-him1-ne-'
mterr"pti the witness by asking
"What is the reason that Parks did not see
Anderson?"
The witness replied: "I don't know, but he
would not ?ee him."
"Proceed," said the Judge.
"Well. I saw him, he saw, and jut at that
minute ''
"Stop, sir," said the Judge, throwing himself
in a hearing attitude, "did I nmbnihiiul mn
so say that you went blind?'
Yo. sir,
i went blind and
and Parks won!.!
Anderson he
not sit him ;
went blind
0 , ,J v AIKlerson, and then he saw"
- ltness, exclaimed the Judge, striking
the bench with his clenched list, "do I hear
ir.
. i j ., J w luab JJL Hint
Vnil C-11- tl.nf
mcu iuu saw
"Yes, sir," replied t
rem io i tiio .tnca
.vuuersoii, ana Anderson saw, and
hat '
. . . ...v. I llliu3.
" I saw
just at
"Cfnn
sir." said thr imim -r- ri-w
fine the witness .j0 ior contemt of court, and
direct the Sheriff to take him to jail, and there
to keen him until he receives further orders
cuik ",e court" Cail up the next Mr'
Boo Gibbons was dumbfounded, and did not
Sra lea u of his condition until the
bherift had his hands on him, when he ex
claimed :
"flood gracious, Mr. Jude, what have I done
that I must go to jail?"
The Judge, who was purple with rage, did
not deign to reply to poor Gibbons, but reit
erated the order with increased vehemence,
and the members of the Bar, who had been an
ticipating the fix that Bob would eventuallv
be placed in, were convulsed with laughter,
which increased the rage of the Judge to the
highest pitch. The Prosecuting Attorney en
deavored to enlighten the. .T11.W ntui A-..nt.
ually succeeded, but not until he had produced
a pacK of cards, and, after dealing out three
hands, made the blind as clear as day to the
Judge.
The fine and
imprisonment were remitted.
and Gibbons
was allowed to oroeeed with his
. .. 1 . . . . .
lesiuiioiij . J'lixjKtyn Sunday Union.
A SAD-EYED MAN.
UOW HE SQUARED ZACH. CHANDLER'S ACCOUNT
WITH CONK LING.
Crawford writes from Washington to the
Pittsburg Leader ;
I do not care to say that Chandler drinks to
excess ; lie might arrest me ior criminal libel,
but I think I may venture, with impunity, to
the statement that he is not a strictly temper
ate man, and that after dinner he inclines to
become excessive garrulous. A friend reports
me a sample of Chandler's style, as follows :
Chandler loves to boast of his strength. Upon
t his particular occasion he raised his arm over
the table.
"See my muscle," said he : "I can lick any
man of my size anywhere, if I am an old man;
that is because I am scienced in the business.
But I won't lick a man unless he is a gentle
man. Now, when a man tells dam Use about
me, my way is to go and lick him, if he is a
gentleman. Now look at Don Pott (Piatt);
he tells more damlise about me, and I would
lick him, but Don Pott is no gentleman.
George Townsend I was going to liek once for
telling a dam lie about me and I hunted him
for over a week, but before I found him. I
learned that he was no gentleman, and so his
hide was saved."
Chandler's great hobby in his skill as a pugi
list. Koscoe Conklingis also a great boxer.
He has a private gymnasium in his residence
at Washington, where after dinner he invites
such of his friends as are gvmnastieally in
clined for a friendly little bout with the gloves.
Conkling is a very good amateur boxer, and
as he is a very large, powerful man, he gener
ally has it his own way with the guests who
are bold enough to put the gloves on with
him. For some time it was an open dispute
between Chandler and Conkling which was
the better boxer of the two. Chandler would,
after every dinner party of which he was a
member, calmly as.-crt that he could lick any
man of his weight in the United States. One
day last winter Chandler dined with Conkling,
and the latter inveigled the great war Senator
into his private gymnasium. The gloves were
donned, and the two doughty champions be
gan to make graceful senatorial passes toward
one another, according to the most approved
rules of the P. K. The bout, however, was of
a very short duration. Chandler suddenly re
ceived 11 blow between the eyes, which caused
the huge senatorial form to go over backward;
his trusty legs failed him, and then he sat
down so hard that tears came out of his eyes.
It took four men to get the war Senator ujxm
his legs, but he threw up the sponge at once,
without any further ctfort to punish Conk
ling. The only remark he was heard to make
was: ' Damn strange," and "I'll fix him
yet."
Conkling and Chandler were much together
in a social way, and it was not long after the
above occurrence when Chandler received an
other invitation to come up to his house and
spread his legs under Conk ling's social board.
Chandler sent word back that he regietted
j very much his inability to be present, but he
had a guer-t at his house, a valued constituent
from Michigan, and he could not leave him.
Conkling sent back work. "Bring your friend
1 long." With this form of in vitation 'hand
ler consented to come up. He brought his
friend with him. and introduced him as How
ard, of Detroit, Michigan. Howard was a sad
eyed man of diffident manners, who contented
himself with paying a very close attention to
the themes of the bill of fare rather than to
join in the general conversation at the dinner
table. Conkling was in great glee during the
dinner. He told over and overagain the story
of Chandler's discomfiture as a boxer, and never
seemed to tire of asking him what be thought
about his ability to lick any man in the
United States. Chandler took all these re
marks in an absent-minded way, as if, sud
denly, he had become lifted above any such
ambition of considering himself a line ath
lete. After dinner Conkling led his guests
info the gviuuafiuin for a general smoke and
chat.
'Come." said he, pleasantly, to Chandler,
"don't you want another bout with the
gloves?"' and then Conkling laughed again in
his most cheerful, turkey-gobbler style, as he
put on a pair of gloves.
"No, 1 don't want to box," said Chandler;
"but perhaps my friend here would consent to
amuse you." Turning to Howard, Chandler
remarked, "You box, do you not?"
Howard still looked sad-eyed and absent
minded. He did once know something about
it, but it was such a long time ago.
"Come, come," said Conkling, "let us have
a friendly bout. I won t hurt you.
Evidently the great New York Senator was
pining to knock some one down. The sad
eyed Howard, evidently Mattered at the pros
pect of being knocked down by so distinguished
a man, began slowly to put on a pair of gloves.
As he was drawing on the gloves, Chandler
was observed to walk down a little to the back
ground. A contented look was on his face,
and every now and then he would raise his
huge right foot up under his swaying volum
inous coat-tail and give himself a congratula
tory kick, expressive of rapture.
The sad-eyed man now came forward, and
the round began. Conkling was for proceed
ing at once to knock his opponent down, and
he would have done so had he not found
great difficulty in getting anywhere near the
sad-eyed man. The affair culminated by the
sad-eyed man's suddenly rushing forward and
landing a thunderbolt of a list between Conk
ling's eyes. The Senator went over like a
great tree, and rolled into the corner of the
room, where he lay for a moment stunned by
the concussion. He was hear I to say after
ward that he thought u house had fallen on
him.
Conkling had enough of boxing for once.
Chandler made several pleasant little remarks
about the skull of his friend Conkling. which
were not received in the most cheerful way.
Judge of Conkling's feelings the next day
when he heard that Chandler had played "a
joke Dpon him by gi ving Howard $100 to come
up and iMjiince Conkling. The Howard, of
Detriot, Michigan, was none other than the
notorious pugilist, Jem Mace.
SHOT HIUSELF FOR LOVE.
A LOVLSrCK YOUTH ATTEMPTS TO SHUFFLE THE
COIL, BUT IT WOULDN'T DO.
A youth of eighteen summers, who has
spent "some of his happiest days playing mum-ble-peg
and jacks on the smooth pavements
of High street. Alleghany, lately became en
amored. He sought her home. She talked
sweet to him. He gave way to the holy pas
sion, and in jKietic strains he bade her come
to his wide spread arms and pillow her head
uKn his manly breast. "Be mine, mine for
ever, and I'll protect you from the chilling
blasts that raise the dust 011 your pathway."
"Not any," was her cruel reply, as she
stood chewing the coiner of her gingham
apron.
"Don't don't say that fatal word; it will
kill me," and he buried his hands in his eyes.
"I'm in love I'm desperate I'll die I'll
"Go hire a hall and tell us all about it," and
her little lips stuck out a foot.
"You know how I have taken you to the
sh- ..sand the theater, and bought you nice
things, and now you do this to me. Oh, 1
can't stand it, I "
"Go tell your troubles to a policeman."
Just then the tapping of her foot on the fender
was distinctly heard.
"Oh ! my lair and fickle fairv, let me pour
out my soul at your feet ; let me tell all that's
in niv heart; let me"
"Write it out, and I'll read it next Sunday.
I have to crimp a ruille to go to a party to
night." I'll shoot myself, I'l take pizen, you'il kill
me, bat then you don't care : I'm going to my
death. Good-by, good-by, pet, bv-bv, I'm go
ing, going, go -"
"It's mighty slow you are," and she busied
herself arranging t he chairs in the parlor.
He went. His first steps were to get a mur
derous ancient looking pistol. This he loaded
to the muzzle, Then with an uncontrollable
burst of affectionate stuff he placed the coil
shuftier over his watch pocket and sent the
murderous missile whizzing to the cardiac re
gions of the thorax. Instantly, he weakened,
and ordered a physician. That gentleman
came and informed the love-sick youth that
he had missed the coil, but the dose would
certainly cure the malady. This morning the
voting man is better, and 110 tears are enter
tained in regard to his recovery. nttslwrn
leader.
CERTIFICATION OF BANK CHECKS.
AN INTERESTING DECISION.
A late number of the New York Time gives
the following legal decision :
Two highly important cases, involving the
intent in certification of checks by banks and
the obligations imposed thereby, have been
decided by the Court of Appeals during the
past week. In one of these cases the Marine
National Bank was the plaintiff against the
National City Bank, and in the other suit was
brought by the Bank of North America against
the National Bank of the Commonwealth, all
four of the institutions being located in this
city. The actions in both cases were brought
to recover money paid out on checks certified
by the plaintiffs respectively. In the first
case it appears that the Marine Bank paid to
the City Bank the amount of a check which
both banks believed to be genuine, and which
the Marine Bank had certified at the request
of the payees. A fraudulent alteration had
been previously made in the body of the check
before the Marine Bank certified it, namely, the
date was changed, the payee's name erased and
others inserted, and theamount for which it was
drawn changed, but the signature ofthedrawers
was genuine. The check was presented to the
payees in payment for a quantity of gold ; the
man who ottered it to them was a stranger to
them, and they had never had any business
transactions with the drawers. The check was
indorsed by the payees and .deposited in the
City Bank," whero they kept an account-, and
was paid to the City Bank by the Marine
Bank through the exchanges at the Clearing
house. The "check was dated, certified, and
deposited Dec. '2. 18Cf, paid to the City Bank
Dec. .'. lSd'.l, and claim for difference between
$23 and $4,071) 03 (the sum to which thecheck
was raised) was made by tlie Marine IJank O'l
the City Bank on Dec. 3, 1800, upon the dis
covsry of the alteration. Payment was re
fused, and at the same time the plaintiff's ten
dered to the defendants the altered check.
The referee to whom the case was sent for
examination and report, decided in favor of
the plaintiff, the Marine Bank, and the report
was confirmed at special term. An appeal was
taken to the general term of the Superior
Court, and, after hearing, the judgment was
reversed. From the decision the Marine Bank
appealed to the Court of Appeals, and received
final judgment in its favor, the Court deciding
that the ceititication of a check by a bank is
simply the recognition of the signature thereto,
as that of a person or firm having an account
with and funds in the bank to which the
check is submitted to be certified ; that the
money was obtained under misrepresentation,
and that the judgment entered on the report
of the referee, directing that the plaintiffs
should be repaid the difference claimed, be af
firmed, with costs.
BEN BUTLER. ,
Gath's Correspondence Chicago Tribune.)
Now that Ben Butler is down at last, it may
be said of him that, if he had been considerate,
to say nothing of scruples, ho would have been
less of tlie incarnate Yankee than he has been.
Nature never produced since James I., such a
whimsical and brutal intermeddler. He ha
seldom been equalled for ability after his kind
a sort of political pugilism, backed by meth
od, and memory, and ready faculties, andal-.o
by fair fidelity after he has made friendship,
except with person u qualified to educe his em-nlou-ness.
Vanity of his talent is his weak
ness. He leaves behind him a public rather
than a personal hate, and his ability and coarse
humor have always softened the feelings of
the crowd toward him. The last acts of his
Congressional career were most damaging of
all his fraternization with spies and shadows,
and strong disposition toward imperial black
mailing. No public man can fool with in
formers habitually and be safe. In this city,
a young man of reputable birth and former
good esteem is now on trial in the criminal
court for a burglary, committed how, or why,
or whence, is still a tangle, but. whatever the
measure of hit guilt may be. if any, his en
forced familiarity with detectives, as County
Attorney, led the way. Butler was t hugged
all round. He undertook to conduct a cam
paign against all the rcputabiliry of the age,
antagonizing it above, while the secret service
pierced it below.
It is probable that he will live in Washing
ton city hereafter, as he owns considerable
property here, and there is a natural law and
lobby business always floating around Gov
ernment, which will compensate him better
than Boston or Lowell practice. His own
house on Capitol Hill, the very next of all
dwellings to the Capitol and Court of Claims.
is neany tinislied a granite eauiee witn stone
bays and stone piorch, uniform with two ad
joining houses, which he haslet to the United
States Coast Survey for tho snug income of
$i,000 a year. Doubtless he will entertain
and keep offices there, and build up practice,
as scores of retired public men have
done here Jerry Black. Stanton, Kobert
J. Walker, Fred. Stanton, K. M. Corwin, Gen
erals Denver and Crittenden and Governor
Hartley, lie is rich, but not thrifty. His life
lacLs the simplicity of aim and method, which
gives discipline and method. It works like an
old style press, too intricate and loud and self
shattering for its simple purpose. All the
Government could not overturn him, but his
little home constituency did so without a
threat. He retired from Home victorious, like
Coriolanus ; but the people who had received
him a stranger, struck him down in Autumn,
"Even so
As with a man by his own alms enipoi.soneI,
And with his charity slHin."
A STRANGE STORY.
Davenport (Iowa), Gazette, Nov. IC
Thirteen years ago a young man wooed and
won a young, lady in a village not far from
Davenport. The parents of the girl objected,
and there was a deal of trouble: but finally
the couple were married at the home of the
bride. Three months after the bridegroom
desired to move to California, but the family
of his wife opposed her emigration, and the
result was that the husband started for the
Pacific coast without her. After the first six
months no tidings from the husband were re
ceived and in less than a year news came
that he was dead. In 1&33 the widow married
a young 'man who had recently arrived from
Germany; and her second husband was en
tirely ignorant of the fact that his bride was a
widow. But where ignorance is bliss, 'Us
folly to be wise." Shortly after the marriage,
the husband purchased a farm in Scott coun
ty, and on that farm the couple have lived
ever since, and several children have blessed
their union. Four weeks ago the first husband
of this woman arrived in Davenport, and
making inquiries, learned the history of his
wife's marriage. Then he rode out to 'see her.
It was fortunate that her liege lord was away
from home, for she was very much affecttvi.
She told him that she supposed him dead, and
so married another, and chided him for ne
glecting her as he did. He had a long story
to tell, the real gist of it being that he had de
termined never to return until he became
rich. And here he was rich ! But his wife
was miserable in his presence and he-was
miserable, too. The end of the conference
was, that the first husband returned to Daven
port to consult a lawyer and the end of the
consultation was that the husband went to the
wife and had another long talk with her, and
then the two separated never to meet again,
for the man determined to cross the ocean and
spend the balance of his days in Germany.
The clay that he left the wife entered her suit
for divorce, on the ground of desertion; the
notice was forthwith served on the defendant,
and he accepted service. At the next term of
the Circuit Court the defendant's name will
be called, and there will be no response.
There will be default, and decree of divorce
granted. And maybe the wife will be mar
ried a second time to the father of her children,
and so remain contented in the delightful
home in which she now lives in elegance and
comfort.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
A WHALING DISASTER.
LO. S Of A BOAT S CREW OF SIX MEN IN A SNOW
S 2UALL WHILE LOOKING I oU WHALES.
(From the Hawaiian tlazctte, Nov. lttth
The J'tmrx li Alle.i reports a melancholy
accident which happened near Herald Island
on the 1st of October last. Captain Kelley
ays that on the above mentioned day he
lowered his boats for whales close to the ship's
bow; the mate stood out ahead of the ship
about a mile and tacked, standing on the op
posite course until he was about three-quarters
of a miles from the ship on the weather
bow. The weather was rugged, with frequent
thick snow-squalls. The mate lowered his
sail to have a better chance to see the whales,
and was last seen in that position. At this
time tlie Captain saw a whale off the
ship's lee-quarter and signaled the boats to go
there; he in the meantime wore ship, and ba
fore the vessel came to the wind looked to see
if the boats were coming, when he missed
THE CHIEF MATE'S D0AT.
He became alarmed at once, as there was a
heavy snow-squall coming down, and he im
mediately set tlie recall signals in hopes that
if they were all right they would set their sail,
so that they could be seen. "As the approaching
squall threw a dark gloom on the water he
could not see them; no boat could be seen,
the snow-squall envelojied the spot where
they were. He then ma le sail for the spot
with the ship where the boat was last seen.
When the squall blew over nothing was to be
seen of the boat. The mastheads were manned
by the sharje.st-eyed men on board, as all felt
anxious for the safety of the boat's crew.
When the ship reached about the place
WHERE TIIEY WERE LAST SEEN,
She wore round, standing a short distance on
the opposite tack, with the American ensign
set at the peak to call the attention of the bark
Triton, which was to windward and steering
down toward them, in hopes they might see
me ooat, ana 11 sue naa struct a whale and
had been towed to windward to render assist
ance. The bark then came down, spoke the
. t.ncs Allen and luffed to under her lee. The
J.iims Allen wore off to cross to leeward, when
they saw an oar and two hats ; lowered a boat
to pick these things up, not knowing but
there might be a man. The next moment
they saw the boat off the lee quarter, bottom
up. with
NOT A SOUL TO TELL THE STORY.
Captain Kelley says, from the appearance of
the boat, he judged they had struck a whale,
and been drawn down by the line getlm"''
foul, in which case they could not have kept
atluat longer than ten minutes, as it was bit
terly cohl and the ice making very fast, the
spray freezing as it struck theship. The lines
in tho boat were frozen stiff, and the Captain
thinks that it was from this cause that the
line got foul. Tho names of these unfortunate
men were John Norton, chief mate; Alexan
der Collins, bo-i t -st eerer ; Thomas Barker,
John Seypan, Charles Ambler, Charles Beyer,
seamen. This sail occurrence cast a gloom
over tho spirits of the whole ship's c intany,
and put au c ud to a promising season's work.
The Debut of Queen Victoria. The King
died at twenty minutes after 2 in the morning;
the young Queen met the Council at Kensing
ton Palace at 11. Never was any thing like tlie
first impression she produced, or the chorns of
praise and admiration which is raised about
her manner and behavior and certainly not
without justice. It, was very extraordinary
and something far beyond what was looki-d
for. Her extreme youth and inexperience,
and ignorance of the world concerning her,
naturally excited intense curiosity to see how
she would act on this trying occasion. The
doorn were thrown open and the Queen
entered, accompanied by her two uncles, who
advanced to meet her. She bowed to the
lords, took her scat and then read her speech
in a clear, distinct and audible voice and with
out any appearance of fear or embarrassment.
Sin; was quite plainly dressed and in mourn
ing. After she had read her speech the
Privy Councillors were sworn, the two
royal dukes first, by themselves; and as
these two old nun, her uncles, knelt
before her, swearing allegiance and kiss
iitg her band, I saw her blush up to the
eyes, as if she felt the contrast between their
civil and their natural relations, and this was
the only sign of emotion which she evinced.
Her manner was very graceful and engaging.
She ki.-.-ed them both, and rose from her chair
and moved toward the Duke of Sussex, who
was farthest from her and too infirm to reach
her. I particularly watched her when Mel
bourne and the Ministers and the Duke of
Wellington and Peel approached her. She
went thr-.iuh the whole ceremony, occasion
ally looking at Melbourne for instructions
when she had any doubt what to do, which
hardly ever occurred, and with perfect calm
ness and scit -posse.-sion, but at the same time
with perfect mode.-tv and propriety, particu
larly interesting and ingratiating. The young
Queen, who might well be cither dismayed or
confounded with the grandeur and novelty of
her situation, seemed neither the one nor the
other, and behaved with a decorum and pro
priety beyond her years, and with all tlie se
dateness ana dignity, tiie want ol which was
so conspicuous in her uncle.
I'KOI'OSEI) IwAII.RoAD FROM iJOSTON TO THE
West. Boston, Nov. 21. The project of a new
and direct railroad from Boston to the West is
receiving the general attention of business
men here at the present time. The route pro
posed includes New York and New England
road, Irom the citv to u llhmantic ; the Hart
ford, Providence and Fishkill Koad to Hart
ford, Conn.; the Western and Poughkeepifie
and Eastern lines to Poughkeepsie, and, cross
ing the Hudson, a line of eighteen miles to
Pine Bush, yet unbuilt. At this lmint direct
connections will be made with the Pennsylva
ma and Erie Konds west, and with an entire
system of roads to the coal and iron fields, and
a line to Washington and the South, some
twenty miles shorter than any now existing
It is stated that the Pennsylvania road will
bridge the Hudson river if eighteen miles west
be completed, and will guarantee that 700 car
loads of freight shall be sent daily over the
line to Boston as soon as the road is built. It
is proposed to cross the Hudson river in floats
carrying an entire train until the bridge is
completed. The friends of the scheme sav
that in six months' time, and for $300,000, the
direct route can ne established.
How Verdi Composed the "Tkovatore
When Verdi wits putting the last touches to II
Trovatore, he was visited in his study by a
privileged friend. That friend was one of the
ablest of living musicians and critics. He was
permitted to look at the score, and ran over
the Anvil Chorus cm the piano-forte. " What
do you think of that?" said the master.
"Trash!" said the connoisseur. Verdi rubbed
his hands and chuckled. " Now look at this
and this,' he went on. "Rubbish !" said the
other, rolling a cigarette. The composer rose
and embraced him with a burst of jov. "What
do you mean ?" cried the critic. " My dear
friend,' replied Verdi, "I have been making a
popinar opera. In it I resolved to please
everybody except the purists, the judges, the
classicist", like you. Had I pleased you. I
should have pleased no one else, What you
say assures me of success. In three months II
Trovatore will be sung, and roared, and whis
tled, and barrel-organe.i all over Italy." Verdi
was right, ami we all (except the Kuskins)
wish that lie would give us some more barrel
organ music.
T? took men Caught Natping. Tlie recent ex
traordinary change in the weather caught a
great many stockmen napping. A .good num
ber of horses and cattle are reported snowed
in at different pasture grounds, unable to get
out. There was quite a number of " Keliuf"
about eighteen miles above Strawberry, circling
round a buckeye bush protruding from the
snow quite down, also the manes and tails of
many of them eaten off from sheer hunger.
Many of the stock will perish without the
possibility of aid the snow being three and
one half to four feet deep, and trails can only
be made for them on snow-shoes. Ne'.ertho
less an effort is now being made to rescue
them. Ti'olumnc Luh n-ndt'id, AW. H.
The Times Washington letter of Nov. 21,
has the following :
The Attorney General has decided that
person whose connection with the army as
a
a
commissioned officer has been severed by
re-
signation or legal dismissal, cannot be legally
returned to his former rank, or commissioned
by reappointment to fill a vacancy in a regi
ment or corps of the army, when, by such re
appointment, he will become superior in rank
and position to another officer who holds a
commission in the same regiment prior to such
apjointment.
It is said that a Philadelphia boy stole $700
and presented it to an orphan asylum. The
boy who thus exiendi his whole fortune to
assuage the orphan's grief and wipe his weep
ing eye, exhibits a degree ot disinterested be
nevolence that is rarely to be met with in thi
unfriendly world.
GENERAL NOTES.
The soliloquy of Hamlet contains eighty
one words, of which all but three are Anglo
Saxon.
The difference between a dishonest debtor
and an importunant creditor is that one is a
"do" and the other a dun.
The Shah frightens his wives into submis
sion by wearing an European plug hat drawn
threateningly over his right eve.
A stranger in New York wites to the Herald:
"I came into your great city, yesterday, an en
tire stranger. I stopped on the corner of
Broadway and Canal streets, as I was lost. I
asked of a policeman tho shortest route to
South, street. His generous answer was:
'Don't know; never measured it.'" .
A protest against Sunday theatricals, ad
dressed to the New York Police Commission
ers, asking an enforcement of the laws prohib
iting such amusements, is published. It is
signed by Edwin D. Morgan. John J. Cisco.
Jonathan Sturgiss, Thurlow Weed, William
E. Dodge and several other prominent citi
zens. Youn man, never aspire. Kcnietnber what
happened to the fellow who hallooed, "Excel
sior" so. He was a nice young man. and had
wealthy connections. But he wouldn't mind
the old man, nor heed the maiden who asked
him to call on her. Natuarlly he was found
frozen stiff, still shoutiug Excelsior." Htim
Transcript.
A Washington lady, upon the marriage f
her daughter, gave her intended son-in-laV
three dollars in asenled envelope with which to
fee the minister. The enterprising youth ab
stracted two thirds of the amount and deliv
ered the remaining one dollar to the preacher.
Now, with a commencement like this, what
chance has that mother-in-law.
The Xorthcrner says : Two private citizens,
Lewiston, being somewhat ambitious, and that,
too, for military fame, went to Fort Iapwai a
few nights since, and by way of showing their
fitness for the army, each took a hand in tlie
"draw"' drill with some of the boys in blue.
Not being able to agree in all respects with the
aforesaid boys, they were promoted. They
got into the guard house. .
It is related that Chester W. C'hapin, Kepre
sontative in the Eleventh Massachusetts Dis
trict, received a sijver quarter for hold
ing Major Morgan's horses, at Westfield.
when Chapin was a boy attending school and
the Major was driving a stage. It isaid that
Mr. Chapin has kept that quarter ever since
and that a few days ago. he figured up the in
terest, which, when compounded, amounted
to more than $100, and with this amount
bought Mrs. Morgan a carpet.
.
HUMOROUS.
What is that which, by losing an eve, has
only a nose left ? A noise. a
Public spirit Readiness to do anything
which is likely to prove lucrative.
The London Saturdiy Review cvnieallv says:
"It may be hoped that even undera municipal
corporation London will not sink to the level
New York.
It is pretty generally recognized, says the
Saturday Revtew. that few ties in life are more
trying than that which unites a couple of trav
eling comjatiions.
On election day a Leavenworth man was
shot in the cheek. It is unnecessary to say
that the ball glanced off without doiirg any in
jury. St. .ohm Democrat.
Tiie Duke of Northumberland savs the
rumor that he has become a Koman Catholic
is a false and baseless calumny. He sympa
thizes with General Sherman.
Those who have not read the details of the
Beecher-Tilton-Moulton mutual scandal
should subscribe for a paper published in
New Mexico. They lia ye just heard of it down
there.
Barn um had better look after his laurel.
Way down South "The 'Great Koman Hipiwy
drome" is said to be traveling through the
country with a counterfeit Barnuin at the
head of it.
Douglas Jc-rroldsays. in his Ifedje-hoft Letters,
that "respectability is all very well for folks
who can have it for ready money ; but to be
obliged to run in debt for it, is enough to break
the lieart of an angel."
Now that the Centennial Commissioners
have abandoned all intention of oskinsr Con
gress for an appropriation, they can appeal to
the public with a better-grace and prospect of
securing a favorable response. The Boston
merchants have taken the matter in hand
with their accustomed energy, and at a public
meeting held recently the proposed plan for
celebrating the national centenary was delib
erately indorsed, and by resolution a pledge
was given that tiie quota ot the State should
be speedily subscribed.
PACIFIC RAILROAD LANDS.
From the records of the General Land Oflire
it appears that the number of acres of land
actually patented to the Pacific Railroad Com
nies under the Congressional land grants, is
as follows : Union Pacific Railroad, 700,934
acres; Central Pacific Railroad, C72.G11 acres ;
Kansas Pacific Railroad, 413,000 acres. The
number of acres selected but withheld from
patent by the ordor of Secretary Cox Nov. 3.
1800, to await the completion of the roads in
accordance with the report of the " Commis
sion of Five Eminent Citizens," was 183,222
acres by the Union Pacific, and 61,433 by the
Central Pacific Company. These two roads
having been now accepted as properly com
pleted, are entitled to demand and receive pat
ents for the remainder of their land agents,
which the general land office estimates will
amount to 12,000,000 acres for Union Paciticand
9,100,000 acres for the Central Pacific Company.
The estimated quantity which the Kansas Pa
cific Railroad Company may receive under its
grant is 0,000,000 acres. The law of July 2,
1864, however, forbids the issuance of patents
for lands to any Pacific Railroad Company un
til the co9t of surveying, selecting and convey
ing the lands applied for shall have been first
paid into the United States Treasury; and, as
there is no law requiring the Companies to
apply for patents unless they wish to. and no
machinery has been provided for enforcing the
provision of tho act of 1SG4, that lands not
s'Dld by the railroads within three years after
the completion of their roads shall be liable
to be Bold under the pre-emption laws, for
their benefit, at $1 25 per acre, the Pacific
Railroad Companies may indefinitely delay the
issuance of patents for" these lands and thus
keep them exempt from taxation, althou
still reserved from general settlement and sns
ceptibie 01 sale by said corporations.
PRESSURE F0RRAIL-WAY AID.
A dispatch of Nov. 2Sth says :
There will be great pressure brought to bear
upon vxmgress tins winter in benaii 01 ootn
the Northern and Southern Pacific Railroad
companies. One of these companies has sent
an agent to many, probably every member of
Congress during the recess, to lay the interests
ot its road before them 111 the most effective
way, by personal appeal and argument.
The other company has been none the less
active in other ways. The hope of the railroad
lies in members who are to retire from Con
gress at the end of this session. More than
hundred members of tins Congress have failed
01 re-election, and the retiring members, feel
ing wee iro in responsibility to their constitu
ents, except those obligations which honor im
poses, are me nope 01 tne loooyists and men
with schemes, lhe last session of Con cress
was less in nuencea oy tne lobby than at any
1 r. . . .. ... .
previous session, but it will need a eood deal
more of virtue than that which is ordinarilv
displaycd to maintain a clear reputation until
the P-h of next March.
Washington Monument. Baltimore. Md..
ov. r.ev. Lr. O. II. Tnlanv. of the Met
ropolitan M. E. Church, of Washington, de
livered a lecture ut the Masonic Temple, in
this city, to-night, for thebenefitof the Wash
ington Monument Fund. President Grant.
Secretary Fish, Secretary Belknap, Secretary
Delano. Attoruej'-iientral Williams, and (ten
Babcock were present. They were escorted to
seats on the stage by a committee of promi
nent citizens, including Mayor an bant, Hon.
Reverdy Johnson, Collector Booth and others.
Letters" from General Shermsn and Admiral
Porter, expressing regret at their inability to
be present, were read. After a eulogistic re
view of the life and character of Washington,
Dr. Tiffany made an eloquent appeal for con
tributions of the fund in-order to insure an
early completion to the unfinished monument
at Washington.
Some very serious disorder seems to have
affected some of the horses in Washington
county. They first lose ihc use of the right
hind leg and then become perfectly helpless.
The Presidency, we believe, is the only
office in the country that has not been held by
a member of the Waih'burna family. A'msas ,
ClfU TiiM3.
THE ARMY.
retort or general schofield.
Chicago. Nov. 2S. The Committee on As
nronriations have nearly completed the Wal
Denartment bill. inwhich thev have close!
followed the bill of last year. The army is st.
fn be maintained at 25.000 men. There IS 11
deficiency in the War Department estimat
for this year. The Secretary has received th
annual "rcDorts of all the commanders of u.
visions and departments. General SchoiielU
commanding the Division of the Pacific, says
"Since my last report, satisfactory progress to
n-.-ird n final settlement of the Indian questior
so far as it'deje::ds on military operations. ksJ
lwwn made. Under tne wise and vigorous ot
eration3 of General Crook.the few Apaches whd
nUKtirtU' refused to submit to necessary re
strict ions have been hunted down and killed, I
and General Crook thinks, if the Indians of tl.
Tmllnnm of t li various reservations in Arizon 1
ta nrAr.0 rk- mnnai'ed. the Indians kept t.
work- jin.l furnished with seeds and imple
ments, and their present interest in agriculture
and stock-raising encouraged, no junner
tronbln need be expected, and they will gradu
ally become self-sunixtrtHjg. The business Of
the Department has been conducted in a satis
factory manner, with a due regard to economy
and tiie general interest of the public service.
I take pleasure in renewing my previous com
mendation of General Crook's management of
the difficult Apache problem, and cordially ap
prove of the administration of the Department
of the Columbia by Col. Jefferson C. Davis."
REPORT OF GENERAL EMORY.
Gen. Emorv, commanding the Department
of tlie Gulf, iirx his report says : "Iibeg leave to
call attention to the delicate and undefined na
ture of the duties imposed on the troops serv
ing here, and to suggest that a general rule ol
action be defined, and that persons perform
ing such duties be protected by law. In the
execution of them, at present, the troops are
expected to keep the ieace without having
any power to correct abuses, however flagrant,
or power to arrest parties for the most crim
inal offenses, and yet their presence in case of
a riot or disorder renders theta liable to civil
suits if casualties should occur even by acci
dent. Yet it cannot be denied that their pres
ence is necessary to the conservation of peace'
in the Southern country, and in my opinion
to the existence of government itself. I there
fore do not e msider it too much to ask that
the whole subject of these duties in the South
ern country
eration."
may become a subject of consid-
RKinTS OF INDIAN IMPORTANT I'ECISION.
Washington, Nov. 2S. A special says the
Supreme Court of the United States has just
rendered an imiHirtant decision as to the
rights of Indians in the lands of their reserva
tions. The decision as rendered as Chief Jus
tice Waite is, that Indian tribes do not own
the fee to the lands withirT, their respective
reservations, and are only tenants of the
United States, to whom the fee belongs. The
decision also holds that limberand minerals
are a portion of the royalty, andthat Indian
tribes cannot sell the one nor lease the other.
The case crime up froni the reservation of the
Oneida Indians ( lsconsin), where one rtwo
Indians disposed ot a quantity of pine-logs.
The Indian Agent, on behalf of the trile,
brought suit for replevin to recover the logs.
oii the
ground that
tlie lands and timber
thereon
relation
belong to the
Indians in their tribal
THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.
1 'orrespondenc-e X. Y. Tribune.
Washington, Nov. 15. The following is a
summary of the annual report of Mr. George
S. Bangs, General Superintendent of the U. S.
Railway Mail Service, which will form one of
the appendices to the annual report of the
Postmaster-General :
The railway postollice ears are new in oper
ation on most of the,im?ortant connecting and
trunk lines of railroad, giving the most direct
and available transit to the mails between the
ofiiev of origin anddc-stinatiou, and forming
nearly a perfect connection between the vari
ous railroads upon whirh service is performed
by route agents. The following statement
will give some idea of the importance and
work of the railway postollices: New York
originates from f5 to 00 tons of mail matter
daily, as shown by an oificial statement, 45 to
50 tons of which are forwarded on the trunk
lines leading to the West and Southwest.
Three of these lines the New York Central
and Hudson River Itailroad, the Erie ltail
road, and the Pennsylvania Railroad carry
daily over their entire length ?.n average of
i ih "tons of mail, and as the bufk of this mail
is deposited in the offices at the latest hour
possible to reach the trains, or arrives on Von
necting trains, it must b)distributel in trans
it, taxing the present accommodations to the
utmost, especial ly-ias the Krie Railroad is the
only one furnishing such accommodations as
the Department desires.
WHAT CONSTITUTE THE P.ULK OK THE MAILS.
The statistics of New York offices show that
out of a monthly average of 3.352,o27 ounds
of mail originating in that office, S2.82 per
cent., or 2,70S,502 pounds of it is composed of
second-class matter, or publications issued at
stated intervals .sent to regular subscribers;
2O.M0, or 7.8 per cent, consists of letter mail
or first-class mail matter; 9.12 per cent, ia of?
third-class or miscellaneous matter, upon
which the postage js at the rate of 1 cent for
exich 2 ounces. Samples ti merchandise,
which have so often been aid to overload the
mails made only 9.2o of 1 per cent, of tlie
whole.
Tlie statistics of the larger offices of the
United States, show that 9.11 rer cent, of the
mail dispatched is first-class or letter mail;
70.98 per cent, is second-class, or regular pub
lications sent to subscribers, and 13.01 third-
clasd or miscellaneous matter.
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
Though the present Congress must be satis
fied that it does not represent the will of the
people, there is to great reason why it should
continue to refuse to perform the sole service
tur which it was clothed with legislative au
thority. On the contrary, if it i- iatriotic
rather than partisan, it will hasten to make up
for past deficiencies, to correct past errors, to
remove public abuses, and to apply itself to
the gratification of the ascertained will of the
people. If it may not accomplish all that is
to be desired in a three months' session, itisat
least capable of declaring its intentions in
that time. The understanding, as the time
approaches for holding the sluut session, is
that the President, with the Secretary of the
.Treasury, is fixed in his determination to ex
pedite the return of specie payments. What
was rumored concerning the suppression of a
portion of Treasurer Spinner's reiort by the
Secretary goes very far to confirm tlie belief. If
the spirit, to say nothing of the terms of the
President's memorandum to Senator Jones on
resumption reappears in the financial recom
mendations in his annual message, there will
be no excuse left to Congress for passing the
subject by without at least inaugurating action
upon it. The country waits to see what it will
do. The year that constitutionally elapses to
the meeting of the Forty-fourth Congress is to
be improved instead of thrown away. Busi
ness in all departments, foreign and domestic,
turns 011 this question of a sound currency. It
is the one thing that-i wanted now to set the
vast machinery ofTrade in running order.
Money that is not standard is capable of con
fusing ;t:id obstructing all ealeulatinos in
exchange and therefore in production. A
debased and uncertain currency is a stand
ing prohibitory tax 011 exports, to be iatd
at last by the farmer and planter at a needletw
sacrifice of their comforts. The country to day
is full of natural productions. Vet business is
suffering from prolonged stagnation. Money
is in unparalleled abundance, yet prices are
steadily shrinking dnd labor is lartrely unem
ployed. That demonstrates the fallacy of the
theory that i:oiatmg tlie currency will revive
business, s. nd up prices, or furnish employ
ment to those who are in want of it. llostoa
W.
THE RIGHT OF
BURIAL IN CONSECRATED
GROUND, q
Montreal. Nov. 21. The celebrated Gu-
bonl case has been finally settled. Kcelesias
tical burial in tho consecrated nart of the
Catholic cemetery had been refused to the
ody of fjuibord, a Montreal printer, because
ie had died a member of tlie C anadian Insti
tute, a society which had in its library works
condemned by the clergy, and which society
had been excommunicated therefor. Ihe case
went through the Canadian courts, and, the
position of the clergy having been sustained,
was appealed to thePriw Council. Burial in
consecrated ground was demanded as a civil.
ami not as a religious right, as there remained
no alternative but to put the body in the place
reserved for suicides and other unconfessed
malefactors. The following has been received
from London by cable :
"To-day, in tlie Guibord case the appeal is
allowed, and burial is ordered in holy grounds.
with all the costs, except of the recusation of
the Judces. Guibord is entitled fn ecclesias
tical rights.'0
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