Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1878 — Page 1

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THE WAS nr THE BAST. The Czar has returned to St. Petersburg, where he had a most enthusiastic reception. A cable dispatch says profound gloom prevails in Constantinople. The Saltan ana a majority of the people are anxious for peace, but they are overruled by a party of Pashas who know that the end of the war will bring them heavy punishment. A small element is determined on war to the death, and demand a levy en masse and the unfurling of the flag of the Prophet. A London dispatch saj s the fear of England going to war is dying out there, but the Government still continues warlike preparations. The total Russian loss by the war to Doc. 20 s 80,412. A Turkish dispatch from Erzeroum says it is believed the siege of that place will soon begin, • « the Russian forces are overwhelming, and Russian infantry is advanced into the plain of Erzeroum. A cable dispatch says the Rervians have taken Akpalanka, on the Sofia road, after eight hours of fighting, and are advancing en Virot. Severe weather prevails over the whole seat of war. The Danube is frozen over, and part of the bridge has been carried away at Ibrailo. Another change has been made in the Turkish Cabinet, Said Pasha becoming Minister of Marino and Uacouf Pasha of War. Thu British Minister, Layard, has spoken unofficially in such a way as to convince tho Turks u.at England will aid them, and they are last regaining confidence. Their depreciated paj)er currency has taken a sadden rise. Tho following words are attributed to the Czar in reply to a deputation headed by Prince Gortschakoff : “ England intends, apparently, to exercise a pressure upon the liberty of our action, but we will not consent to mediation, and are armed against intervention.” A St. Petersburg journal says the Porto’s request for mediation will be declined, because, according to international law, mediation is only possible when solicited by both belligerents. Otherwise mediation becomes intervention. It is rumored that Osman Pasha, tho oom-mander-in-cliief at Plevna, is to bo tried by a Russian military court for the slaughter of the wounded after several engagements of tho past summer. There seems little doubt that England has consented to accept the offico of peacemaker, and will undertake to bring about an adjustment between Russia and Turkey. The announcement is now made otlicially in the London Advertiser that the British Government has acceded to Turkey’s request, and will try what can be done toward prevailing upon Russia to negotiate terms of poaco. Reinforcements ordered for tho Russian army exceed 250,000 men. The Army of tho Baltic, numbering 00,000 men, is also being formed. Russia has bought 200,000 rifles in Berlin. A Loudon dispatch of Dec. 29 says: “I am informed, on good authority, that in English military circles war is considered almost inevitable. Arrangements are completed and regiments alloted for an army of 80,000 men, and steps are already taking toward the formation of tlm nucleus for a reserve army. Profound uneasiness prevails here, and there is great depression in trade and finance.” There are no complaints of an unseasonable mildness in the weather on the Danube. Show at the headquarters of the Russian army near Rustchuk is two feet deep ; the roads ore no longer passable for wagons ; sledges for winter tise have not been provided ; the Quartermasters declare that they cannot keep up the supplies for the cava’ry, and grave fears are entertained that the bridges will be broken by ice, completely interrupting tho movement of food for man and beast. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. A cable from London says that Capt. Wiggins, an Englishman, just returned from the Jenisol and Obi rivers, in Siberia, reports that route as practical to the North pole, with an opon soa all the way. He reports that there is an immenso commerce into Siberia from China. Capt. Wiggins, with his schooner of forty tonß’ burden, Bailed from the capital of Siberia to St. Petersburg and anchored before tho Winter Palace, where his vessel was visited by the imperial family and by great crowds of people. Steps are to be taken to organize a lino of trading steamers, and thus open to the world the marvelous timber, grain and mineral resources of Siberia. Seven tons of gold were taken from one mine this year. Wheat equal to that from California is sold at sl6 a ton. Beef is one cent a pound. Therb are telegraphs everywhere, and the large cities and people exhibit the great spirit of enterprise that Bus ia has carried into the country. The reconstruction of the intornal administration proceeds apace iu France, under the auspices of the new Ministry. The reinstatement of all the municipal councils dismissed since the 16th of May has been ordored ; prosecutions for press and publication offenses have been dismissed, and the triumphant republicans are gathering the spoils of viotory iu all directions. The latest advices from Havana point to tho conclusion that the revolution which has been going on in Cuba for the past nine years is gradually disintegrating. Bands of iusurgents numbering from twenty-five to seventy are daily surrendering, and it will not be many months ore the Cespedes Provisional Government finds itself without a follower. Sonora, which has always a disturbance of some kind on hand, is enjoying an Indian war at present. A few days ago a party of Sonoran troops attacked an Indian camp. Twenty-seven of the attacking force were killed, and the Indians went on with their cattle-stealing just as if nothing had happened. The people of Alsace and Lorraine are petitioning the German Government to remove the military government that was plaosd over them at tho conclusion of the Franco-German war, and for restoration of the civil authority. The Panama Star and Herald of a late date says : “ A rebellion broke out at Puerta Arenas. Tho rebels, after cruelly assassinating tho Captain of the garrison, set fire to the building, including the hospital, with all the patients in it, stole *7,000 from tLe treasury, and robbed all the commercial houses. In the confusion they were killing o&ch other, the houses composing the colony only half remain standing. 'The total number killed is forty, with fourteen wounded.” Don Carlos has been expelled from France.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The success of the underground railway in London has proved so great as to induce a number of English capitalists to enter upon a similar undertaking in New York. It is expected that the cost of the proposed road will be about *8,000,000. Efforts to bring to justice a gang of forgers who last spring endeavored to negotiate *200.000 in forged bonds of Quincy county, 111., (tpd ?««$• Mo., bore in

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VOLUME I.

the arrest of three New York brokers, Joel N. Hayes, Ferdinand Hertog and Wm. Muir. Cornelias Tobin, of Boston, Mass., threw a lighted kerosene lamp at Mrs. Mary L. Mekegan, setting her clothes on fire, and she burned to death. Tobin was arrested. Robert P. Parrott, the inventor of the Parrott guD, died at Cold Spring, N. Y., last week. Netter k Co., bankers in New York, hare failed for *200,000. W. H. Roberts’ building, at Rondout, N. Y., was burned the other night, and his wife and daughter and James Brophy perished in the flames. Charles E. Johnson, son of wealthy parents, and a nephew of HeDry Ward Beecher, shot and seriously wounded his wife in Brooklyn, N. Y., last week. Johnson’s wife had left him on account of his violent temper, and for this reason he attempted to morder her. A receiver has been appointed for the People’s Savings Bank, of New York city. Gon. Ouurge W. McCook, of the famous Ohio McCook family, died in New York last week. Seven vessels and thirty-seven men were lost by the Gloucester fishing fleet the past season. West. They have a summary way of dealing with horse-thieves out on the Pacific coast. Five of the gentry were taken from the jail in Bakersfield, Kern county, Cal., the other night, by a body of indignant citizens, carried into tho District Court room, tried before a regularlyimpaneled jury, convicted and hung. The Coroner’s jury soon afterward brought in a verdict of "Hung by parties unknown.” Dexter Park, Chicago’s famous racing course, is to be turned into a lumber-yard. A general resumption of activity in the Indian market is noted in the dispatches from the West. A large body of hostiles are skirmishing in the Black Hills country, leaving the miners in a state of uncomfortable uncertainty as to their intentions ; in Sonora the Indians were victorious in an encounter with troops, and in Idaho trouble is anticipated from the Bannocks. An expedition is forming at Fort Lincoln to capture Sitting Bull and his band. Kate Noonan has been acquitted of the murder of Wm. H. Sidle, at Minneapolis, Minn., on tho ground of emotional insanity. Tho wife of J. B. Bowman, Mayor and wealthy citizen of East St. Louis, 111., committed suicide the other day by shooting herself through the heart. Arizona dispatches report the extermination of a band of thieves,who had been robbing the mails and preying upon wagon trains in that region. A portion of the band were pm-sued by a detachment of cavalry, under Lieutenants Rucker and Toney, who continued the chase until thoy struck a permanent camp of more than thirty lodges. Alter a gallop tltrough the village the troopers counted fifteen dead brigands, and captured a number of horses and a large quantity of stolen goods. A sad salamity occurred near Central City, Col., a few nights since. The residence of Thomas Terrill was destroyed by fire, and Mrs. Terrill and two sous and Robert Jeffrey perished in the flames. The deaths from scarlet fever in Chicago for eleven months of tho past year numbered 787. Tho heaviest transaction in mining property that has yet occurred Dioofc Hills country was completed the other day in the sale to California capitalists, for the sum of *400,000, of the four mines belonging to the Golden Gate Mining Company. The matter of prices of admission to firstclass dramatic entertainments has been agitating the managers of the country for some time, bringing out a great diversity of opinion in regard to a proposed reduction. Mr. McVicker, of Chicago, has taken the bull by the horns, and reduced the prices at his theater about 25 per cent., hoping an increase in attendance more than sufficient to compensate for the change. The amusement tariff has been too high for some time and McVicker deserves success in his recognition of the fact. H<> util. Detective William C. Pride, of Memphis, while half asleep, imagined he heard a burglar at tho window, took a pißtol from under his pillow and, in attempting to cock it, the weapon was discharged, the ball passing through the body of his 5-months-old child, and also through the body of his wife, causing the death of both in a few hours. Postmaster Clarkes, of Hernando, Miss., was garroted and robbed of *6OO Postoffice funds, a few nights ago. WASHINGTON NOTES. Gen. Sheridan testifies before the House Military Committee that there has been no raids by Mexicans into Texas during the past year, or since the Diaz Government obtained control, and bat few, if any, cattle have been stolen. A Washington telegram says: “In the attempts of both sides to count up the silver and anti-silver vote in the Senate, both sides admit that their respective counts show an exceedingly close vote. In case of a Presidential veto, it is claimed by the opponents of the bill to have 26 votes, exactly enough to sustain a veto, with Sharon away. The full vote is 75. If there are 25 Senators to sustain a veto this would make a tie, and the Vice President could vote the same as if the Senate was equally divided.” MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Flora Temple, the famous trotting mare, died the other day at Chestnut Hill farm, near Philadelphia. She had reached the unusual age of 82 years. The following business failures are announced : The Dal* Silk Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N. J., liabilities *300,000 to *400,000, nearly all secured ; The Taunton (Mass.) Savings Bank, liabilities *1,353,763, assets represented at *1,404,513 ; Riggs Bros., private bankers, HI.; George Baker, banker, Chester, Pa., liabilities *159,000, assets *192,000. A telegram from Mesilla, New Mexico, says: “Texas rangers started from El Paso to recover their arms, taken from them by the invaders. Arriving at Socorro they met an armed body of Mexicans, whereupon a fight Four of the invaders were killed and ranger wounded. Gen. Hatch, who is in the advance, has sent back for more troops.” * The crop reports received at the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, indicate that the wheat crop of this country for 1877 was abont 360,000,000 bushels, or about 50,000,000 greater than for toy previous year. The corn crop, estimated, from the same reports, is 1,300,000,000 bushels. The crops of oats and potatoes were correspondingly large. Of wheat, it is estimated that 110,000,000 bushels oan be spared for export. Lieut. Walter Walton, Assistant Inspector of the Life-Saving Service on the North Carolina coast, makes a report in relation to the loss of the Huron, showing that Evan O’Neill, a fisherman, saw the ship pounding to destruction as early as 1 o'clock in the morning, and heard the screams and cries for help of those on board. He went home and ate his breakfast, giving no alarm that would have saved many lives, but waiting until sunrise, when the work of plundering the dead bodies washed ashore could euiawetu*- Tbs wwludee! «jt

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1878.

is shocking to record that, ent of ninety-one bodies found, about twelve of whom were officers, not a single trinket such as would be deemed a relic by relatives of the dead was found on the bodies. Watches and chains, money, and even Auger-rings, had been stripped off by those who first found the bodies as they washed up. Good evidence is found in the ease of Lieut. Sfanonds, whose third and fourth fingers ‘of the left hand had been scratched and gouged by the body-rob-bers in their haste to secure their ill-gotten booty.” The failure, is announced of the Rockland County (N. Y.) Bank, the Jersey City (N. J.) Savings Bank, the Real Estate Savings Bank (St. Louis, Mo.), and J. D. Parker & Coi., wholesale druggists, Cincinnati, Ohio. POLITICAL POINTS. A call has been issued for a meeting of the Indiana Democratic State Convention at Indianapolis on the 28th of February next. Washington dispatches say Secretary Evarts authorizes the announcement to be made that the differences are abont to be healed that have divided the President and the Republicans in Congress, and that the restoration of harmony is near at hand.

WAR ON THE PRESIDENT.

Letter from William E. Chandler to the New Hampshire Republicans. [Washington Telegram.] A remarkable letter has made its appearance, signed by W. E. Chandler, which is regarded as a stalwart Republican manifesto against the President. The letter recites first the declaration of the Cincinnati Convention and Hayes’ letter of acceptance, and says the Republican party, by the advice and procurement of Gov. Hayes, made the necessity of keeping the Federal power in Republican hands, and using it for the protection of black and Southern Republicans, the main issue of the Presidential campaign. It says the bloody shirt, as it is termed, was freely waved, and Gov. Hayes himself urged prominent public men to put forward as our best argument the danger of rebel rule and a solid South. In this connection it quotes several expressions from Gov. Hayes’ letter of Nov. 8, 1876, when the latter thought himself defeated, and said: I do not care for myself, but I do care for the poor colored men of the South. Northern men cannot live there and will leave. The Southern people will practically treat the constitutional amendments as nullities, and then the colored man’s fate will bo worse than when he was In slavery. That is the only reason I regret that the news is as it is. Mr. Chandler then proceeds to say that Gov. Hayes not only pledged himself to protect, to the fnll extent of Federal power, life, suffrage and political rights in the South, but was counted In aB President only by reason of special pledges given by Senator Sherman and other Ohio emissaries, who particularly and emphatically promised that he would recognize and maintain the lawful State Governments of South Carolina and Louisiana, and stand by Govs. Chamberlain and Packard. The letter then charges that the Confederate Brigadiers forced another bargain out of Hayes by filibustering. The bargain was made by the following parties: Messrs. Matthews, John Sherman, and John A Garfield, and od the other hand L. Q. C. Lamar, John B. Cordon, E. J. Ellis, Randall Gibson, E. A. Burke, and John Young Brown, with Henry Watterson, Stanley Matthews’ nephew, as a go-be-tween. After the inaugural the bargain was speedily fulfilled. As soon as the electoral votes of iheir States were safe, Govs. Packard and Chamberlain bad been notified by Hoes.. XTuttliews and jEivarls to get out. Gov. Chamberlain was now summoned to Washington and informed that he must surrender, ne protested against his taking off. The President hesitated, but Wade Hampton demanded the performance of the bargain. Mr. Matthews was sent for to come from Ohio, and within twen-ty-four hours the United States flag was ordered down in Charleston, and Gov. Chamberlain stamped out. As to Louisiana the fulfillment proceeded more slowly but none the less surely. Packard had made on March 21 a constitutional appeal for Federal aid, which it was difficult to withhold from one as surely Governor as Hayes was President, and yet he was refused. As a subterfuge, an unconstitutional commission, consisting of J. M. Harlan, Joseph R. Hawley, C. B. Lawrence, Wayne McVeagh, and Jual Brown, was sent to New Orleans instructed to gradually destroy tho Packard Legislature, but, they proving too stubborn, the Republican commission telegraphed to the President that nothing would destroy Packard but an actual order withdrawing the troops. At the word the President gave the order, Packard was crushed, and the commission returned triumphant to Washington to be recognized, one of them, Gen. Harlan, by an appointment as Supreme Court Judge; and another, Mr. Lawrence, by the release of Jake Rehm, the great whisky operator and defrauder of the revenue at Chicago. Gen. Hawley was offered the appointment of Chief Commissioner to the Paris Exhibition, but declined because the salary was to be only Three offices were tendered to Mr. McVeagh, but declined od the ground that his services demanded more ample recognition. The English mission was assigned him, but circumstances have made its delivery inexpedient or impossible. One other hope remained to Gov. Packard. He had a lawful court of justice, and ho might appeal to that, but there were two vacancies, and it required all three of the Judgeß, Ludeling, Leonard, and John E. King, to make a quorum. Judge King was immediately appointed Collector of New Orleans. Packard's court was struck down, and NighoJls’ mob government regned supreme. The bargain was in every way fulfilled, and the Democrats had no occasion, as had [been threatened, to make public the secret agreement. Hayes bad been made President by the fidelity and courage of Packard and Chamberlain, and their devoted followers, and his administration had trampled them down. In the further pursuance of the bargain made with the Southern Democrats the new administration has adopted a so-called Southern policy, first, entirely contrary to the announced principles of the Republican party; second, which has been carried out by the abandonment of all Federal Intention and effort to protect life, property or suffrage at the South, or to enforce the constitutional amendments; third, which has resulted in the enforced dissolution of the Republican party at the South, and its demoralization, division and defeat at the North. The letter concludes: Silence is a crime. Acquiescence and inaction are political death. Can the Republican party of heroic achievements be bound to an administration which is not a free agent, but which is bound by a bargain to Gen. Gordon, L. Q. C. Lamar, Wade Hampton, and other Southern Democrats now in high office only through the blood of murdered Republicans 7 Does not every voter in the land know that Hayes and Packard were elected simultaneously and held by the same title, and that when Haves abandoned and trampled down Packard he put an irremovable stain npon his title 7 The Republican party has lived long and survived many assaults and many treasons only because it has been a party founded upon high principles, animated by lofty sentiment, courageously acting up to noble convictions. If it now disgraces its record and indorses or fails to repudiate Hayes’ surrender its voters will leave it by thousands, its days are numbered, and it will die a deserved and dishonored death.

Did it in Self-Defense.

A young lady was visiting the family of Warden Batterman at the State Prison, a short time since, when Battlesnake Dick, who was out about the place doing chores as a sort of trusty, attracted her attention. Dick seemed so gentlemanly and accommodating that she could hardly believe that he had ever done anything that could bring down upon him the heavy hand of the law and place him within the walls of a prison. One day the young lady said to him ; “ What are you in here for, Dick?” “For highway robbery, Miss.” “Oh, dear me! Highway robbery! But you were not guilty—you didn’t rob any one, Dick ?” “ Oh, yes I did! I robbed Col. Stone.” “What! Col. Stone, of Virginia City —Col. Stone, the lawyer ?” “Yes, Col. Stone, the lawyer.” “ Why, Dick, what made you rob Col. Stone?” Drawing near to the young lady’s side, and casting a searching glance about the yard as though to make sure he was not observed, Dick shaded the larboard side of his mouth with his hand and whispered, “Sh-u-sh! I did it in self-de-fense.” The vineyardists of Southern California are discouraged, and many are proposing to out up their vines, beoause they oan only realise #5 a ton for their R»pe s,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE SAN ELIZARIO AFFAIR.

Why Judge Howard and Mia Companions Were Shot. [Austin (Tex.) Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat,] Maj. John B. Janes, commanding seven companies of Texas State troops cm tli& frontier, and the Rangers, was called npon by the Texas correspondent of the Globe-Democrat for the purpose of an interview on the border troubles, which was cheerfully accorded. “ I would like to be informed somewhat about the features of the country round about El Paso, so often of late mentioned in the dispatches,” remarked the Olobe-Democrat correspondent. Maj. Jones, the Ranger—l’ve been there and can tell you all about it Firstly, then, as to El Paso (the Pass). The El Paso on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, now beginning to be called Franklin, to distinguish it from El Paso on the Mexican side, is a small village inhabited almost altogether by Mexicans. There are but few Americans in it. It is not the county-seat of El Paso connty, as is the idea generally entertained. Cor.—What, then, is the county-seat ? Maj. Jones.—lt is,a little place—a mere Mexican hamlet—called Yslette, twelve miles below El Paso, or Franklin. This is the capital. Then again, further down the river, is Socorro, containing some 350 inhabitants, all Mexicans, with a chance “Gringo,” or American. Sun Elizario, the scene of the mob, is a Bmall Mexican town eight miles below Socorro and twenty-five from El Paso. All these places are inhabited mostly by Mexicans —for that whole region is nothing but a Mexican country, whose people, with the exception of a few American settlers, are one and in unison with the dwellers south of the Rio Grande. They are related and intermarried together, linked by other ties, and, indeed, a considerable proportion of the Mexicans in El Paso county were born in Mexico. Cor.—What sort of a country is it out there? Maj. Jones—Pretty wild, I can tell you. It is some 700 miles from the settlements of Texas. The country around El Paso, and in which are situated the places I have mentioned, is a poor, sandy, barren region, only the river and creek bottoms being capable of irrigation. The soil of the plains out there will hardly sprout cow-peas. Cor.—What was the immediate cause of the late Mexican mob and uprising at San Elizario ? Maj. Jones.—Undoubtedly the fact that Judge Howard, the cause of the original difficulty iu El Paso last fall, returned among the Mexicans, who held him. When I was out there at the time, shortly after Howard killed Cordis, the leader of the Mexicans, I arrested and put him under bond for his appearance at the next term of the court in El Paso. I advised him to go to Mesilla, some fifty miles from San Elizario, and stay there until court came on. But it seems he did otherwise, and came straight back into the midst of his enemies. The original cause of the trouble was as follows : A banking firm of Austin, of which George B. Zimpleman, ex-Slieriff of Travis county, was a partner, procured and received from Mr. Groos, State Land Commissioner, patents conveying lands in El Paso county, and including some salt lakes or ponds. These ponds have been used free by the Mexicans for 200 {rears, and, in fact, it is claimed, beonged to original Mexican grants before Texas became a State. Judge Howard, is the brother-in-law of Zimpleman, and, as his agent, went out to El Paso, and, taking possession of the ponds, or endeavoring to do so, informed the Mexicans that if they got any more salt from the lakes they must pay for it. Then began the rumpus. Howard’s life was threatened, and it is laid by prominent Texans who knew him that Howard was an unscrupulous man and a desperado. In the progress of the quarrel Senator Coidis, who had represented El Paso in the Texas Legislature, and who warmly espoused the Mexican side of the difficulty, was shot and killed by Howard, for which, as Maj. Jones states, he was arrested and bound over. The remainder of the story has already been told. Howard, who was regarded by the Mexicans as a thief, come to steal their rights and take away the privileges of their fathers, returned from Mesilla, and, in spite of the protection of twentyfive Rangers, he was taken by the mob and made to suffer the penalty of his temerity, and expiate the murder of Cordis, which the Mexicans knew would never be done in the courts. The two men, Atkinson and Mcßride, also executed, were friends of Howard. That is the origin of the difficulty at San Elizario.

Turkish Valor. The European and Christian races everywhere, the races which account themselves the greatest, wisest and bravest of the earth, have watched with amazement the spectacle of invalid and semi-barbarous Turkey contending on even terms with gigantic and organized Russia. At the outbreak of this struggle the civilized world supposed that it would be pitiably unequal; that, without the assistance of some one of the “great powers,” the Moslems would be crushed in a single campaign; that the advance of the Muscovite armies would be little more than a triumphal promenade. It was commonly supposed that the superiority of Bussia in soldierly disposition, intelligence and education at least equaled her advantage in wealth and numbers. It had come to be an accepted credence, almost equivalent to a military maxim, that Asiatic and semi-. Asiatic troops could not stand before Europeans. We have seen enough during the summer of 1877 to lead us to question all these beliefs. Whatever may be the termination of the contest, the Turkish Generals have shown formidable capacity, and the Turkish soldiers have exhibited heroic courage. They have not only defended intrenchments with their historic tenacity, but they have assaulted them with impetuosity, and sometimes with success. Embodied, they seem to be the equals of the Bussians, and, man to man, their superiors. What is the meaning of this wonderful uprising and resuscitation of a people whom all Europe looked upon as decadent and effeminated ? The truth is that there has been no change in the character of the Ottomans. We have notread their history thoroughly and with discrimination. Arguing loosely from their military disasters, we have not done justice to their martial qualities. They have always been brave, even in their overthrows. Their most unfortunate wars, the wrestles in which they have suffered defeat on defeat, have been illustrated by signal instances of heroism such as the most warlike nations might glory in. If they have lost territory, it has never bees through lack of

valor, nor altogether from want of good generalship, but mainly from defect of preparation.— J. W. Da Forest , in Harper’s Magazine for January.

CHEAP TELEGRAPHY.

A New Company Organized—The Capital Placed at Ten Million*. [From the Philadelphia Times.] _ A new telegraph company, with the title of Continental, and with a capital of $10,000,000, divided into shares of $25 each, and having for its avowed object the reduction of telegraph rates, has filed articles of incorporation with the County Clerk of New York city. A number of prominent Philadelphia capitalists are moving actively in the organization of the new ooncem. Said a gentleman yesterday: “The capitalists having the matter in charge claim, and back their argument by forming the company, that a perfect system of sac-simile or autographic telegraphy has been invented, which will forward the message in the original handwriting of the sender, making a more accurate and reliable transmission, also a much more expeditious one, than is possible under the present system. It is guaranteed by the sac-simile invention that, compared with the present general system, the capacity of a wire can be quadrupled; and this, together with the remarkable improvements in batteries, the development of currents, and other cheapening inventions, has lessened the cost of telegraphing to one-tenth of what it was twenty years ago. The Continental Company is thoroughly organized—with Alfred Nelson, former Treasurer of the Atlantic and Pacific, as President; Albanus L. Worthington, of Trenton, Treasurer; J. G. Case, Secretary, and James G. Smith, inventor of the autographic system, as General Manager—and will begin operations at once by running a line from New York to this city, as a sub-section of the first section, which will eventually include all points between Boston and Washington. It is the intention of the directors of the new line, and it is understood to be necessary under the Smith system, to place forty poles to the mile, with No. 6 wire weighing 560 pounds to the mile. The loss of insulation by the increased number of poles is more than compensated by the superiority of the Brooks insulator, made of Le Bastie glass, which is nearly flexible, and, consequently, less brittle and less liable to break than the ordinary glass insulator. of way has been obtained through New Jersey, the most difficult State iu the country in which to obtain chartered rights, and the company iB prepared, or will be in a short time, to begin the work of construction between New York and Philadelphia. In time it will be made a national line, extending to all parts of the United States, and the corporators claim that they will bring telegraphic facilities within the reach of the public generally, through medium rates and fair profits to the company.

American Millionaires in Paris. An American millionaire, Mr. Mackey, has opened the dancing season in one of tho most beautiful mansions in Paris, with a reception that took the proportions of a court ball. The fact makes the moralists who send letters across the channel rather uncomfortable. One of them is surprised to see with what a rage the French now throw themselves into tho vortex of American society. A few years ago it was necessary for even the richest American to be patronized by a noted person of high French society, who sent out the invitations, and who presented host and guests to each other. Then the guests almost felt they were honoring the man whose champagne they drank. Now, however, all is changed, and King Dollar has asserted his undoubted sway over Paris. The oldest coat-of-armß and the fairest of French lilies bow to him, as soon as he appears. He has no longer to seek introductions, everyone seeks to be introduced to him. He has no longer need of a chaperon to issue invitations; the post brings him daily perfumed, eoroneted billets, asking for the favor of an invitation to his next reception. There is consolation, however, for the British moralist. Americans are declared to be “innately English,” though they will not confess it. Hence it is that the American millionaires in Paris adopt the English style of housekeeping, and we have English servants, English gray livery, English cooking and English clothes. If they are imitated in everything, as the moralist suggests, the Americans are obviously doing Great Britain a good turn by introducing and sanctioning English modes. —New York Tribune.

Webster and Hayne. Webster once told his friend Harvey that several years before the great debate with Hayne he had investigated the whole subject of the public lands for the purpose of opposing a resolution of Mr. McKinley, a Senator from Alabama, proposing to cede the public domain to the States in which they were situated. The question never came up, and Mr. Webster Said: “I had my notes tucked away in a pigeon-hole, and when Hayne made that attack npon me and upon New England, I was already posted, and only had to take down my notes and refresh my memory. In other words,” said Mr. Webster, “if he had tried to make a speech to fit my notes he could not have hit it better. No man is inspired with the occasion. I never was. ” Of the many anecdotes about what took place between Mr. Hayne and Mr. Webster afterward, Mr. Harvey says were many stories which Mr. Webster characterized as untrue, but he vouches for the following : Mr. Webster met Mi. Hayne that night at the President’s reception, and, as he came up to him, Mr. Webster remarked pleasantly: “How are you to-night ?” “ None the better for you, sir,” was the General’s humorous reply.

Conkling as a Boxer. Senator Conkling, when at college, is said to have had manners so reseveed that they provoked his fellow students to tease and torment him. He was then a tall, slender youth, and not strong, and feeling his inability to protect himself properly, he quietly procured a teacher in the art of self-defense, and soon became an expert boxer. After he had held a few Emphatic interviews with divers aggressive students, they concluded it was the better part of valor to let him alone, and he finished his college course with no more molestation. It is added that the Senator takes pleasure in putting on the gloves whenever he can find anyone to spar with him. —New York Tribune. The pineapple flavor furnished to ice creams and oandies is reported as produced from butyric ether or acetate of butyle, both produced from coal tar.

THE “NATIONAL” BANKS.

A Five Hundred Million Robbery—Every Tear the Rankins Subsidies Continue, Thirty Millions will be Taken from the People—Hon. Stephen D. Dillaye’s Third Open Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury. Hoc. John Sherman, Secretary of the United States Treasury: Dear Sib: It is generally understood that you are in favor of continuing the present system of national banks, and of withdrawing the greenback circulation, so that, practically, our entire circulating medium shall be based on specific United States bonds. Being utterly opposed to this mode of securing the bills issued, I beg your attention to the reasons which lead me to this opposition. National banks were authorized and established at a time when rebellion was not alone rampant —when it boasted that it had the support of English capitalists and foreign enemies—to the spirit of our institutions to an extent rendering their armies formidable and their sympathizers sanguine, and when every man at the North who did not openly and conspicuously declare his allegiance to the Government was regarded as an enemy. Mr. Chase was ambitions, therefore, to enlist capital in all parts of the loyal States to sustain and strengthen his position. To do this as rapidly as possible, every appliance was used, and every inducement was offered in the power of the Government to bestow. An exact statement of these inducements must be enumerated to show the profit the capitalist was to enjoy and the power the banka were to possess. Up to January 1, 1866, the amount of notes issued was *298,588,419. This may not be absolutely accurate, but it is practically so. The sum did not vary materially till 1872, when they increased to *328,465,431; and January 1,1875, to *354.128,250.

Having thus seen the amount of currency, add to this 10 per cent, and we get the amount of bonds issued to the banks as the security of of the bill-holder, making an aggregate of *389,530,477. The first great inducement to the capitalist then was the price for which the purchaser had to pay for his bonds. In 1862 the price varied from 60 to 70 cents on the dollar. From 1862 to the Ist of January, 1865, gold went up. In January, 1864, its price was 155 ; April 15, 178 ; June 15, 197 ; June 29, 235 to 250. So that the average cost was about 55 to 60, running down some time as low as 42. The bank bondholder then for this investment did not pay to exceed 55 cents on the dollar, and got from his Government bonds at par varying from 6 per cent, to 7 3-10, nearly doubling his money on the start. This was the first great inducement to make his investment. The second was nearly as potent The banks, for each dollar represented by their bonds, were delivered 90 per cent- in bills, which they were permitted to lend on bankers’ discount rates, and which was equivalent to 8 per cent, additional interest, thus securing directly to bankers an equivalent of about 17 per cent, interest. The banks were also entitled to receive deposits, and discount on them. The amouut of the deposits average about *600,000,000, or more than once and a half the amount of their bonds, and gave the bankers a profit of at least 6 per cent, net, and increasing their annual earnings to not less than twenty-three per cent. As a small offset to this profit, each bank was required to hold a percentage of bonds as security to depositors, and the amouut of the bonds so held amonnted to abont *44,600,000, making the gross amonnt of bonds held by the banks directly *434,136,475. Another advantage given to the banks was that all the bonds they held were exempt from taxation; but as the banks are subject, by another provision of the law, to taxation on their deposits one-half of 1 per cent., and 1 per cent, on their average circulation, and one-half of 1 per cent, upon the average amount of th6ir capital not invested in United States stocks, the banks have made combined and strenuous efforts to get rid of this tax as onerous. I shall take occasion to show the relation these taxes hear to their net profits as compared with other investments and property. The banks, as a further advantage, were made the fiscal agents of the Government to sell the bonds of the United States, and from this employment made a considerable gain, until the Secretary of the Treasury established the syndicate system of negotiating bonds, I have thus stated the manifold advantages and unheard-of privileges bestowed upon national banks as an inducement for capital and capitalists to invest their money and influence in support of the Government. The National Bank act was a war measure, and was, perhaps, justified by the exigencies of the times, and the absolute demands of the treasury to meet the enormous expenses of the war. The reason which may have justified the privileges and immunities of the national bank system has long since ceased. They are to-day a burden and a tax upon the people it is impossible to justify; and sound policy demands that the offensive features of the system shall be at once abrogated. Let me now call your attention to the influence they are exercising as a premium for their exclusiveness, their arrogance, and their dictation.

They are more sovereign in their control, more arrogant in their management, and more dictatorial in shaping the money market than any combination which ever undertook, through the finances to mould the policy of the Government. But this, you may say, is mere declamation. Let us look at facts, about which no man is better informed than yourself. The whole banking interest of the national hanks is a unit. It is controlled by one system of laws. It has formed itself into an association regulated by minute conditions, carefully prepared by-laws ; a fund only limited by the demands made upon it. It has hut one aim, GAIN; hut one purpose, PROFIT. JTo secure this its regulation flows from the great arterial center into every vein of our financial system. Its code of laws, like those of the trade-unions, seek to cover the policy of that absolute power which is capable of reaching every element of legislative influence it can sway or which corruption can buy. Whatever measure it seeks to control in State legislation it controls ; whatever it seeks to accomplish at Washington it prepares in advance. There is not a Congressman so weak as to be accessible to flattery or bribery that is not flattered or bribed to their purpose. If the member be beyond direct approach, he is measured and surrounded by those seductive blandishments their agents so well understand. Every member goes to Washington with some pet measure of his district, or some interest he is committed to and ambitious to press, and in nine cases out of ten that measure will not become a law unless its advocate pledges himself to the demands of the bank monopoly. Its motto is, “ Eternal Vigilance.” Its agents are sleepless and indefatigable; and once in motion it sucks in its victim as certainly as the devil-fish draws its object into its death embrace. Today the prominent object is the abrogation of the taxes imposed on its circulation, its deposits, and that part of its capital not invested in U. 8. stocks. And there is not a member who has not been appealed to, coaxed or threatened to the last verge of human ingenuity. It was through the leaders of this interest that you were subjugated to their purpose into that recommendation for fixing the period for making specie payment the law of the land. You knew, or you were inexcusably ignorant, the ruin the same kind of a movement in England in 1817 brought upon the people, the industry, and every material interest in Great Britain. You knew that every effort to force specie payment in that country, and in this, had ended in losses sufficient to appall every trade and annihilate every enterprise. You knew, too, that the people at large did not demand the measure ; that no one but bankers and dealers in the funds could be benefited by it, and yet you not only recommended it, but you have urged it by every appliance the treasury could command. You have taken into vour confidence such Hessians as Jay Gould and his gambling cohorts; and the American people, from one end of the land to the other, are humiliated and disgraced by the infamous association. Yes, sir, the nation looks back to the position you occupied in the Senate of the United States when the legal-tender clause was the subject of debate, and when every interest in the land but that which was represented by the opinionated and self-wise dogma that the Government had no authority to issue bills of credit and make them a legal tender, but your good sense and patriotic devotion to the Union and to its power cf self-preservation, led you then to fully and distinctly uphold the principle and the law. You then said “ that this currency would become the life-blood of the whole business of the country,” and so it did. Again, when the same money-power attacked the reliability and safety of this currency as the most worthless secupity a nation could of-

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fer, and declared it bat the remote promise, at some undefined time, without basis, responsibility or value, produced by steam by the hundreds of millions, and more valueless than the French assignat or the Continental currency, to pay some undefined person; you nobly defended it as based on the best and highest security a nation could create, and declared every man an enemy to the Government who questioned its value; and the whole people echoed your praise and commended your statesmanship. But when the $2,000,000,000 of capital, controlled and manipulated by the national banks, demanded specie payment to kill off the greenback, and make those banks the sole medium of currency, you either ignored the past, and repudiated your own former reasoning, or you were subjugated to a line of policy as heartless as uncalled for, and as ruinous as that which Sir Giles Overraach proposed to Lori Lovell as a bait to win his matrimonial alliance, who was ready

To ruin The country to supply his riotous waste; and you, sir, to pander to the alliance yon would form between the bond-bolding and gold-controlling capitalists of this and other lands, do you not say in substance to these usurers: Point out any man’s land In all the shire, and say they lie convenient And useful to your lordship, and once more I say aloud, they are yours. But I may ask, as Lord Lovell did of Overreach, Are you not frightened with the imprecations And curses of whole States, made wretched By your sinister practices ? It will not answer for you to use the bold defiance of Sir Giles when he replies : Yes, as rocks are When foamy billows split themselves against Their flinty ribs. For the American people are no longer either slaves to party or to ignorance. They will tolerate no tampering with their interests. You may to-day swell in the consciousness that yon are at the head of the most powerful department in the Government; but dare to defy the people, and they will hold yon in a public contempt no time can soften, and no party can relax. You have been bold in attempting to retrieve the misfortunes and frauds of Republican insolence. You thought to do it by a financial finesse. The banks have not only urged with all the power, all the learning, and all the skill a vast combination of influential wealth could devise, but they have subsidized the whole metropolitan press, retained and feed the best legal and reasoning talent of the land, and secured the whole Bohemian aid of the country, to write down the greenbacks and write up the national bank currency. They have hesitated to employ the pen of Mr. McOonlloch, who was the chief instrument in forcing contraction and demand for specie payment, who in long articles has devoted the best reasoning he could command as the representative of foreign capital to fasten this infamous banking system upon us for all time—this system whioh makes the taxable inhabitants of the land mere payers of tribute, bounty and exacted plunder into the vaults of these burdensome and privileged marauders on the public treasury. The people of Ohio have just repulsed the outrage by a vote sustaining this proposition : “ That we denounce as an outrage upon the rights of the people the enactment of the Republican measure demonetizing silver, and demand the passage of a law which shall restore silver to its monetary power.” And you understand its meaning. Dare yon, sir, or dare the banks to-day, venture to justify the longer payment of interest on more than $450,000,000 of United States bonds to secure their currency to the billholder, when by withdrawing that currency according to the law, and the spirit of the law, yon can take up the bonds and issue in their place the currency of the nation—the currency which is secured the same as the bonds are secured ; the currency which, like the notes of the Bank of England, has the support, the confidence and the security of all the property, all the people, all the honor, and all the duration and integrity of the American people, as the Bank of England has the support of England? Let the banks continue banking as many as may choose to do so, using the greenback, and nothing but the greenback, for their circulation, and thus take from the overburdened people more than $30,000,600 of annual tribute paid to keep up the pampering privileges of these now oligarchic money-changers. The people do not understand how they are duped, bled and blistered to fill the pockets of rich bankers without the pretense of a benefit or the shadow of a consideration. How long, sir, do you propose to favor, by bounty, the rich at the expense of the po:;r ? How long will you sanction the infamous proposition of the bell-weather banker, Mr. Coe, who told the Committee on Finances that the bankers had concluded to put the screws on circulation until they reduced the price of labor to a level with European pauper dependents ? Yon had better pause, the bankers had better beware, for there is a time .coming, and it is near at hand, when 40,000,000 of people are going to repudiate the demands of the national banks. Let us see how it looks on paper :

:The People of the United States • To The National Banks, Dr.: •To Annual Bounty from") • June 1, 1876, to June | 1, 1877, to till the pock- j (#30,000,000. j ets of the rich, taken ' r • by taxation from the I ; poor, without a pre- | f ; tence of consideration.J ;

That is, the people pay these banks an anual bounty more than it cost to carry on the whole Government of the United States for any three years of Washington’s administration —more than any two years of Jefferson’s, including every expense of the Government. Indeed more than it cost to carry on any and every expense of the United States in times of peace down to 1840. And this $30,000,000 is, every dollar of it, an out-and-out gratuity. We have thus taken from the bard earnings of the taxpayers, to give the banks, in twelve years the enormous sum of $360,000,000, which with the interest amounts up to $511,400,000.00! The people are tired of it, it is galling. Tho Democratic platform in Ohio contained these declarations ; “ That we favor the retention of greenback currency as the best paper money we have ever had, and declare against any further contraction. “We favor the issue by the general Government alone of all circulating medium, whether paper or metallic, to be always of equal tender.” And the people have voted. And, notwithstanding that all the Bourbon and Shylock elements in the great majority of the State platforms of both parties declare in favor of specie payments, through the moneyed and political influence of the national banks, yet the people are as a unit in favor of the greenback. You would force specie payment. I would have it result, so far as any human being wanted specie (except to overthrow and oppress his neighbor, and to export to affect the money market), exchangeable as a natural consequence flowing from the fact that there was no forced and imperative demand for it, snch as now makes it command a premium; as you well know, nearly $1,000,000 is daily required to answer purposes the greenback will not answer, simply, as I have before shown, because the Government repudiates its own money. Repeal this infamous insult to American credit. Do as England has always done, receive your own bills for your own dnes, and gold will be as abundant as there. There will be no demand for it. Then, as in England during the whole period of the suspension of the Bank of England, we can do as they did, when the bank uniformly gave gold for its bills in any and every ordinary transaction, till the Government made its payment, just as yon are attempting to do, imperative at the cost of hundreds of millions and universal commercial ruin. No, sir; the people will not submit to it; they will not submit to it, because it is an outrage upon their rights. It is a class law to favor a class. It is stealing from the people to pamper the luxuries of the rich. Not only this, but these banks, in instances not a few, have aided and abetted rich men to evade and escape the payment of their taxes. This has been the style of doing it: A favored depositor or stockholder at the time the list of taxpayers was made out would go to his bank and propose to buy United States bonds equal to the amount he was assessed. The bank would charge the applicant with the amount of bonds he required, on its books, not delivering a bond or receiving a dollar, simply wrapping around them the name of the man. The depositor or stockholder would then swear off his taxes on the pretense that all bis personal estate was in United States bonds. The tax would then be cancelled. As soon thereafter as safety would permit, the bonds were sold back to the bank, the account and the Government cheated. One of the suolime advocates of the specie-payment swindle is the Hon. David A. Wells, a kind of walking embodiment of figures—the author of ‘ ‘ Robinson Crusoe’s Money,’ a pamphlet redolent with 14b wisdom, blowups, balderdash, &ndj old lady's

gfemotntiq JOB PRIITIM OFFICE Om better tecißttea than any offloe ta Northwesters Indiana for the execution of all branches of JOB PRXN-TZXG. PROMPTNESS A SPEOIALTY. Anythin*, from a Dodger to a Prioe-liat, or from * Pamphlet to a Poster, black or oolored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

treacle, on the hard-money theory, such M the banking association preach and pay for. Don’t fail reading it; it is a fair statement of a specie maniaist estimate of our national credit and national imbecility. The bankers have employed him to become the teacher of the people, and commencing with the wisdom ofSancho Rauza at the ABC of finance his pamphlet is wonderfully wise—or otherwise. But I have already protracted this letter greatly beyond the limits I intended. Yet I must call your attention to one answer the banks ever give to the universal oomplaint against the continued contraction of tbo currency. They say they have a plethora of currency; that they cannot lend it. A bolder or a meaner lie never disgusted the commercial and industrial world. From the commencement pf the crisis of 1873, the banks have everywherein the United States put on the high shirt collar, the “ I-am-the-State ” dictation ; they have out down discounts, stopped accommodation, except to shaving brokers, heartless usurers, and to men who could deposit United States securities as collaterals. The business man of small means, however honest, responsible and careful in his business, could not and cannot borrow a dollar. No manufacturer, no trader, no mechanic can borrow a dollar without piling up securities beyond tho means of ordinary capital. A sneaking note-broker who will divide his profits, and the millionaire gamblers of Wall street can borrow ; honest men cannot. The fact is notorious, and these banks, thus manipulating the correnoy and pushing the cry or specie payment, have brought the country to where it is—millions of men without employment, hundreds of thousands of American and foreign laborers withont bread riots, strikers, and the last and worst of all, the press and the pulpit under the spur and under the pay of the Banking Association, have come to declare as the climax of the effort of mankind to elevate man, that our laborers have to give up the ghost of a hope and accept the fate and the pay of tho pauperized dependent of Europe. Is this the result of our civilization ? Is this the triumph of Republican rule? One word as to bank taxation. I have heretofore, in an article widely circulated and largely quoted, shown that the net profits of the national banks had averaged, after paying immense salaries to favorites, every loss, and every expense, inoluding taxes, 9% per oent. on the nominal capital, equal to 16 per oent. on the money invested. That besides paying this enormous profit that they nave set aside and accumulated $134,407,695.00 as a surplus fund, or more than 50 per oent. on the capital invested. The bankers in 1876 paid on circulation, $3,091,795.76; on deposits, $3,505,129.64 ; on capital, $632,396.16making the gross sum of $7,229,221.56. The sum is large, but every dollar of it w r as practically on profits. Every dollar of it is paid before a dividend is declared. It is but a drop in comparison with their enormous gains. It is not one-quarter of the sum the banks yearly draw from the people as a bounty. If the banks don’t like it, their remedy is easy—“return your circulation.” Ofesar was accustomed to say: “With money I will get men, and, with men, money.” The banks have been acting on this principle ; but the days of Tweed and Tweedy legislation, it is hoped, are past. At all events, the man or men who dare to keep up the crusade against greenbacks and national credit; who dare to appear as the supporters of the $30,000,000 bounty, and the advocate of withdrawing greenbacks to give place to national bank currency, will find no political or moral support w’ith the honest or intelligent men of the nation. Such privileges as these banks now enjoy are the rank weeds necessity may have tolerated ; but if the taxpayers do not cut them down, sajing, “ Why cumbereth thou the earth?” they are fit subjects to become .the dupes and slaves of a banking monopoly which would subjugate the people to its will and the country to its control. Respectfully yours, Stephen D. Dillaye. Trenton, N. J.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Transplantation of Human Skin—Sisters of Charity {jiving Skin, Flesh and Blood to Save a Patient's Life. [From the New York Herald.] An exceedingly remarkable surgical operation has recently been performed at St. Catherine’s Hospital, Williamsburg. On Friday, Aug. 3, 1876, while Dora Conrad, of No. 340 Mangin street, was attending a jenny in Waterbury’s bag factory, in Bushwick, her hair, which was hanging loose, caught in one of the spindles, and in an instant the hair and scalp on one side of her head were tom out. It was done so quickly that she felt only a tug. Tho overseer took her to St. Catherine’s Hospital, on Bushwick avenue, where the doctor# said they could not do anything for her. Two days after the physician in charge said, “lean save her, and if she can stand the operation I can give her a new scalp by transplantation.” The operation of transplantation of skin is an exceedingly delicate one, and has been but recently introduced into surgery as a remedy in cases of open wounds. The ghastly injury inflicted on Miss Conrad not only tore off the scalp, but destroyed a portion of the periosteum. No hopes were at first entertained for her recovery;* but as the days wore on her naturally good constitution enabled granulation to begin, and flesh commenced to form. Taking advantage of this the doctor took two pieces of Dora’s own arm, and cutting them in small pieces, grafted them on the periosteum, about a quarter of an inch apart, and in a row about a quarter of an inch from the line of the lower edge of the wound, holding them in position with small strips of plaster. In a few days minute ramifications extended from these little grafts to each other and to the sound skin, which gradually increased until they bridged over the space between them, and new skin was thus produced. This operation was carefully repeated during the seven months the girl lay in the hospital, the grafts for the purpose being freely furnished by Sister Dolorosa from her arms. Sister Joanna, another of the faithful nurses in the institution, also furnished material for grafts during the operation. The doctor was so skillful in his manipulations that every piece of skin grafted took root, and the entire skull was again covered with a firm, healthy, but hairless soalp. There are spots bereft of feeling; they are those connected directly with the skull, the periosteum having been destroyed just there. There was danger of the upper table of the skull dying in these places, but, fortunately, the oil dressing prevented that. The case excites much interest among the surgical profession.

Very Particular.

The Indiana woman of superior ton iajnot behind her sister in New York or Paris in her idea of “ the eternal fitness of things. ” Recently in one of the cities of that interestihg Western State a very beautiful woman died, whose mind was somewhat given to styles. On her sickbed she was particular about color, light and the general tone of the room, and never received a visitor without a red or blue shawl thrown across the shoulder. She preferred not to die, and did not intend to die. “It is such a disenchanting process,” she declared. When it was discovered that she most die, her husband broke the news to her very gently. She was a little distressed, but not much agitated. She had only one request to make. It was: “My darling, don’t let that horrid Mrs. —; —- make my outfit. Her fits are sickening, and she overtrims terribly; besides she will be sure to spell myrtle m-u-r-t-e-1 in the bill.”—-Editor’# Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for January. The French have very strict building Jaws. JSfo flue# are permitted in a party walL