Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1874 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1874.

TUE THOUGHT OF HEIL A. B. B. At thAiwht of her the tender tear Ar troubled from their springs Yet stir a weeps the April rain Her violets that brimis, With health and healing? In their well. Not bltitr, bme-tUh things. Only 11 H the geitln oa To have one more In Heaven ! It will mm arrange and bleak at first, Th lai y elnnenws riven. And yarnln love that wants her baclc Soeasdly forgiven. At thnnttht of hr the flickering Mulles Jnlvcr and glimmer, ik: Bo gracious, beautiful and bright Her rounded life-time grew 1 Remembering all ber ways and words. As faithful lovers tl.. How vividly they catch the light, Like embers fanned aglow " Tbl qt aiutnemor that archm-w shown fotne day we only know; An altitude, a look, a gem Worn then, a ribbon w A winsome air. a gentle tone, A kludiineasshedld, All fragrant with that 6ense of her Tiial could no more be bid " Than snbtlo la .ndr or rose IaUI common things amid. At thought of her the air grow pure Anil tremulous and sweet; It was a vision perfected. A lovely life to meet. Brave woman, wPe and mother crowned Ami anefl now betdde. The world is rieber that she llvcl. And Heaven that she dial. She died: ind yet no ned to Kay Her niemorv as though Of us an t our to-d ty hue had Korevermore let go, In u the past, and would henceforth Js'o longer care or know. Can she who here dved lavishly. Now only out of Big it. II colder, more forgetful grown There in Uod's luil love-lii?ht? th ! no, we will not count her out. Telling the rid good-Bight. Then give we thanks. O Lord! for her Gone in Thy faith and fear, or ud she v rought. for seed she sowed And left to iiien here. For all the honor, love and peace Th't keep h-r name so dear; But most for this-a legacy Such as none other were, I'otent to stay our hearts in stre.. Uplift us lest we err. And beckon, beacon-lite, to Heaven. The blesst-d Ihonght of her!

NEWS ASD GOSSIP. Gen. Sherman's family will pass the summer at St. Albans. Vt. The Prussian railroad have tee J authorized to raiso their charges twenty per cent. Twenty thousand tons of peat are annually abstracted from the marshes noar Montreal for use as fuel. Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, is reported to have lately said that ''women had no more right to vote than a horse." Nearly a thousand bills recorded on the books of both houses of congress have been introduced too lato to even secure the action of a committee. The report ol the city registrar of Charleston. S. C, shows that the rate of mortality among the colored imputation is twice as great as among the white inhabitants. Rhode Island is said to be the only state in the union in which the custom is preserved of having the high sheriff to cry the election of the governor troni tho balcony ol the state house on inauguration day. Fiw marrying Miss Rogers, who is 13 years old, Thomas Reedy, of Rowley, Mass., has Im en sent t'i tho state prison lor four years. Technically, it wai a case of abduction, an i Köcdy had already three wives Äving. The Senate cla'.ms committee have agreed to rcjort the House bill with amendments appropriate .000,000 to piy the awards of the southern laims commissioners in favor ot about one million unionists throughout the .South. There will be work for county map-makers when tho Mississippi Hood subsides. The old F.-rhtr of Waters has been remodeling tho country down there, without regard to title deeds or couuty records. Mr. Weston now wants Boston to watch b.1 1 n while he walks forty-nine miles lorw ard and the same backward, all in ten hours. He will probably next try his ability at walking on his head. May r Colyin, of Chicago, has issued a prod am t'.ion a-king the citizens to observe tho 21' h inst. as a holiday, and in vitin them t participate in the ceremonies oi latieg tho corner-atone of the new custom Löus ami postotfice on that day. Seven princes ot thej blocd royal of Eng land havo been created peers of Ireland. In eluding the seven twelve have been created peers with Irish titles. The new creation ol the dukedom ot Connaught is the only intaix.T in which toe cbiet tiileof an English prince has 1 een an Irish one. 11. F. Woods, of Passu mpfcie, Vt., has written on a postal card tho Declaration ol Independence, the ten commandments, the Lord's prayer, the ilJ psalm, the second epistle of John, the 7'h psalm and the first verse ol "Coronation," lesides the superscription to the Horton Journal, the w hole woi'k including 2,272 words. President J. Itlanehard of Wheaton college in a paper on "The lall of American slavery gi vea an interesting bit of history. 'Excepting, perhaps, the lif tie state of Vermont, there probably wa not one county nonb cf the slave-line where n anti-slavery lecturer was free from personal danger; while, sonth of that line, to bo'.d anti slavery sertinients was banishment; to propagate tbeui, death. GoernorDix has signed the New York and I'.rooklyn bridge bill. It provides that tho necessary amount to bo raided for eonipleliug the bridge shall be appropriated by the cities ot New York and Brooklyn, in ums of DO,000 and ?i,000.000 respectively, as t he tioara of constructors shall need it. It remains with the common council of the two ci'Jes to say whether the money shall bs raised, and tho sense of the cotnmnnity, it is supposed, will be expressed by the action of the municipal authorities in the matter. If one may judge from a curious Mass-chut-etts will dated 1S24, the young people of that time and that commonwealth were not renowned for tho tender care they took of their venerable fathers and mothers. The " old geutloman in making the will In the ancient town of Lexington, bequeathed to his wile, not only tho sum of t! i'teen dollars a ?Fear. and enough wood to keep one fire aiming, but also three rooms in their farmhouse, "with liberty to ptss and repass up the front tairs and ou; at the front door to . either ol the welis, and a right to two seats In pew No. 53 in Lexington meeting-house, so long as she shall live." The expanse of the post-offlv-o department Lis run np from &".212.!)2 in 1?.0, ami ?1I,1ÖI1G7 in J 851, to ?3,(X0 000 in 1S71. The figures show that in the 10 years, Irom 1SÖ0 . to ltUO, expenditures doubled. The deficit also raa up to .:J7.()00,eoo in that time, including the graut of lsk). The revenues in lSGO were $oUOO. 00 there being r.o deficit that year. In 1S01 they reached cS.513.Oi57. In 1865 the revenues reached ?15,0uo,000.' tho increase during the five 3 ears from lsfj being twice as much as in the 10 years previous to the war. The time ought soon to come wben there will be no deficit in the postal service. 1

A HUMAN FIEND.

THE LAWRENCE BCRO TRAGEDY. THE TERF.iriLE DETAILS OF A QCAPRCrLE Mt'RDKR THE HO E.N K OF THE DARK DEED HOW THE BODIES WERE FOUSD AND THE TESTIMONY GIVEN. The Cincinnati Commercial of the ISth inst., gives the following particulars of the wholesale slaughter of a family in the southern prt of this täte: 'The fearful tragedy at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, that was noticed at some length in the Commercial of yesterday, created a profound sensation of all-prevailing horror in that town and its immediate neighborhood yesterday, w hen the news came to be generally knpwn. A reporter of the Commercial visited Lawrenceburgand the scene ot the crime 5esterdav. and can speak by observation of the dtftaiU ot the affair, sofir aa they are known to the authorities. The bodies of the three murdered females he frund in the Walnut street livery stable, laid out on rudely constructed biers, with lar?o cakes of ice upon them, and we sheets covering them. They, had been washed, and were ready for the plain grave clothes that were being prepared for them. "Beautiful in death" did not apply to these sad relics. They were hideous. Ilov could they be otherwise, with heads mashed by many blows of an ax, tacs sashed, features swollen and distorted, chests puffed up? There lay the mother, Mary E. Bradley, probably thirty-five years of age; at least they said it was the mother. It would require very close observation, though, to tell whetber the face was that of a woman or a Chinaman, so terribly was it disfigured. Jiy her side was the corpse of the eldest daughter, Rosanna, ten or eleven years of age. Near by, on another form, was the irpse of Eliza Jane Rradley, eight years of age. WHERE THEY WERK KILLED is a spot about two miles northwest of the center of Lawreueeburg. To reach it, you go out through Kossville, skirting the beautiful little valley that everybody who has viwited Lswrenceburg has observed; out tho Ridge road, past the Dob9ll aud Froba?co residences, uutil, north of the new ceme tery, a narrow lane is reached. This leads to the went, a doubtful way to a stranger. It takes you gradually away from town, from outside homes, down under the railroad track, down a steep bill, until, down in the valley of Tanunr's Creek, you seem to havo pissed suddenly from lifo and brightness into a depressing contiguity of gloom. It is the thought that here, a short distance below the ford, a something hideous in the shape oi man took his shoes from his big feet and waded the creek; that he climbed tho hill vonder and brained a helpless woman, with a babe at her breast, and her two helpless dangbters; that as he fled down the hill with Ion; strides he stopped to take hi? shoes in bis hands, aud as he did so, droped the axe, forgetting to hurl it into a deep place in the water, as he had probably intended. He is a fugitive, and his victims were dead or dying. He does not fly from his conscience, or slmdder at the thought ol an atl-seeitte: Eye following him every where. Such murderers have no conscience, and no ienr of anything beyond the rope. Tuey kill and are satisfied tor the minute; if they escape, they vegetate luxuriantly in a condition of contentment. Such murderers are never satisfied with one awful dfed. Like the man-eater of Africa, they inust have ni rc blood, when the appetite has ones been briefly gratified. It is the overshadowing thought ol the presence ol this monster that darkens this sceno. THE LOO HUT. Cross the ford and plunge into this hollow lurther. Down the creek two or three hun dred yards, under the shadoof old canopy trees, and to vour rijrht, above you on the The side hill is partly knob, is a log cabin. in corn, and its bald crest has lately ben plowed. Around the caoin are patcnes of vegetables, onions, potatoes, peas and such ike. The cabin is mud-cmnked, with a door on the south, a window on the north, and a chimney on the west. The sill of the rude window is an old sign-board, for the word "saloon" in red paint is roughly lettered on it. Tfcis cabin is twelve by fourteen. It contains two bedsteads, on which are old, torn straw mattrewess a deal table and two or throe chairs. There are no works 01 art on tb J walls beyond an old print of a girl of many jears ago, seated at a piano. Tue r.H i of clapboard1, and daylight comes t hrough it. There is a horrible stench in the place, although there is no glas at the porthole. In the middle of one of the beds is a b'g patch ot coagulated blood, garnished with brains. Here is where the girl Eliz Jane vs fnund, if Coroner Skinner's memory serves him correctly. On the 11 or near the fireplace, is another big patch of blood. Here lay the mother, aud at her feet the girl Itosauna The baby girl of seven mouths was found clinging to its dead mother, n hose brains were spattered over it. Here, in a place in which not more than half .1 d07.?n men could tlnd standing room, these squalid ones bad parsed the winter and spring. Aud here throe of them met their death. M YSTERY OF THE CRIME. This was still unsolved yesterday when our repirter visited the place. Doctors (latch and Miller had made examinations of the bodies, and were of the opinion that Mrs. liradiev nad been ravished, mere were marked bruises of the person that could not be accounted lor any other way, they thought. The awful gash from the naval down, through which the bowels (uncut) Drotruded. seems to have been made with the head of the ax ; possibly it was a glancing Diowtnai missea tue neaa as the woman fell. This theory ol a rape brings with it the idea that the man who did it killed the pao p'.o that he might not be pointed out by them. A man named Charles McDoyle, about thirty-five years of age, cousin of Mrs. Ilradley s husband, from tho neighboring village of E'.i.tbetn town, who came up to the house when the crowd first gathered around it Tueesday evening, was ar rasted by Marshal Mruiti on sus picion. Rut ai the inquest yesterday, he told sucn a straight Btorv that he was not kept in elos? enstodv. Dut his brother Wil liam, w bo was examined, told contradictory stories aioul trilles, ana people were In c'.ined to regard him with some suspicion. These ar9 tall, spare, aguish men, about of a size, and very much alike in leature?. They appear to bo both nearly forty years of age. They are poor men, from EUzabethtown.and claimed to have been wandering around the country in search of work. They are not quick in manner or speech, and not very intelligent. There was the idea in connection with them yesterday that they both might possibly know something about the tragedy that "it might be a family affair. This, however, was the merest vano suspicion. It was not nmil yesterday that the ax was found, down near the creek. There was blood upon it and hair. Hut the finding of this ax proved nothlug. STRANGEST OF ALL, They had not yet ascertained yesterday when theso murders were committed, whether 011 Monday or Tuesday. The physicians. Messrs. eiatch and Miller, did not think the condition of th bodies warranted the idea that the slag ihter occurred before Tuesday. Mrs. Strahley, wi:e of Frank Strablev, a neighbor north of the hut abut two hundred yards, last saw Mrs. Bradley Monday evenii g. She did not know of any members of the family having been seen alive again uutil shortly after 4 o'c.ock. Tuesday afternoon, when Strahlov'a hired man. Nicholas Raucb, who was plowing near tl e J nit, occasionally going within twenty f. et of, saw the little boy, Jimmy, three years and a half old, crying "mamma,"

"mamma. lie asked the child where bis mamma was, and the little fellow pointed over to the woods. Shortly after,; Mr. Strahley's little daughter found the boy down by the creek, crying, and tried to start him up to the hut. He would not alone, iDd she started with him. When fcbe reached and pushed open the door, she discovered the fearful spectacle that up to that time appears to have eseaptd all eyes. She gave the alarm, and of course the news soon spread. It seems odd that no intimation of this tragedy no sight nor sound should have come to the Strableys until Tuesday afternoon, between 4 and 5 o'clock. The deed conld hardly have been committed that afternoon, as Rauch was frequently close to the house in plowing. The Bradleys, it seems, own the 10 acres around their hut, and had paid $000 on it. Ihey had rented it out to Mr. Strahley, who was cultivating U. So it seems that although tbey lived in such complete squalor, they were not entirely destitute people. THE SURVIVORS. On the Ridge road, about a half a mile from the hut, live two maiden ladies, the Misses Gage. No sooner did they hear of the affair, and of the fact that an iufant at the breasf, badly bruised, survived, than one of them -Miss Elizabeth started out for it. The little one had been taken to the Stahleys. Miss (Sage kindly took it and convoyed it home. Oar reporter found it there, a handsome, curly haired, light complexloned tow-head. It happened to bi suffering from bruises about the bead and face, but was not supposed to be in a dangerous condition. It was sleeping uneasily. The nature ot its injuries had not been definitely ascertained. They could not have been made with that murderous axe. More likely they resulted from a fall. No word bad been received from Bradley up to the time our reporter left yestfrday. lie was supposed to be working back ol Chilo, in Clermont county, this state, on a far n. earning the money "with which to pay

off the indebted ness of his patch. Word had been sent up bv telegraph, and also to New Richmond, but it was supposed that there had been some delay, as be had not replied The innuest developed nothing yesierday. Manv witnesses were examined, but their testimony showed no factsbeyond those al ready stated. Plaster casts of the foot prints were taken by Mr. George Huschart, which may be lounu or use. THE NEW COMET. TIIK POSITION OF TUE NEW COMET ITS RiPID ruocrtnss toward the kaktii its terpju OF OKE.VTF.ST iWILUANfTY. From the Chicago Times of the ISth, the following facts are taken concerning Coggia's cornet in the northern heavens: The comet which is now visible in our northern hemisphere is named after M. Coggia, of the Marseilles observatory, who discovered it on the 17th ot April last. This is the third cotret seen this year, but the others were merely telescopic comets, not be!ng visible to the naked eye. From careful oos9rvations ol Coggia s comet it has been ascertained to be a new one that is, one which has not visited Ulis part of the universe before wilhiu the history of mankind. Its orbit describes a parabola, and its period is almost infinite. Prof. Lewis Smith has addressed the following letter to tho Rochester Democrat: The comot detected by me on the evening of the Sth inst. was previously discovered at Marseilles, France, April 17th. The weather of late has been unfavorable for observation, the clouds demanding tin "right of way" so that few observations could be made, and even those with uot much accuracy. They were enough, however, to prove tho correctness ot my announcement that it was a comet. It is approaching both the sun and earth with a constantly accelerated velocity, arriving at the perihelion (nearest the sun) and perigee (nearest the earth) about the lirst of August. Iseo nothing, therefore, to prevent its being a very con spicuous and beautiful object in the western skv durinsr the months 01 July and August. It is now situated, at 1 o'cioctc in tue morn ing. directly beneath the polar star, and about twenty-live degrees from it, and is just visible to the naked eye. With an opera glass it can be easily seen as a hazy nebulous mass witn a Drignt point a nine to one siue, Through my elescope ot lour and a one-half inches aperture, six feet locus it presents a tail tilling the whole field with a low Dower of 30. So directly toward us Is it moving it seems almost to stand still, its slight deviation from i giving an apparent motion toward RetaUrsa Majoris. It is not visible at nicht, but will soon bo onlv in the earlv hours of the evening, set tine in the northwest. If at the time of its nearest apnroach to the earth the moon should lie absent, wo may expect, from the present indications, to be treated with cometarv display which may rival the tran sit of Venus in popular as well as scientific Interest. The ejiuet will ha brightest on the evening ot August 8, being then 24i times as bright as at the time of discovery, while now it is only five and one-half times as bright, and as the moon will be absent it will be subjected to spectroscopic analysis under circumstances more favorable than may occur aeain in many years. It will then lie about five degrees from Denaboia, the brightest star In Leo Rochester. June 12, 1874. Lewls Swift. Since the toregoinz was written. Mr. S. W. Rurnham has again observed the comet and from measures made with the microm eter, fmnd its place at 8:45 last evening to be: Right ascension, 7 hours 13 minutes 14 seconds; north declination, CS degrees 45 minutes 17 seconds. The comparison star used in this observation is Piazzi vii. 07, one of the American Nautical Almanac stars, tho place of which has been more accurately determined that the smaller stars which had tobeemployedin the earlier mess ures. This is reduced to 1874, and in coia paring it with the previous plaees which are, as has been stated for 18Ö5, the epoch of the catalogue from which the comparison stars were taken, the proper allowance must be uaade for processional motion during the interval. This would increase the righ ceusion at tho rato of about 43.4 seconds per annum, and diminish the declination by about the same number of seconds of arc. The omet is now rapidlv increasing in magnitude, and is readily distinguishable by the naked eve. The nucleus is well de fined, and about equal to a sixth magnitude star. THE EXACT LOCATION. The comet may readily be seen with a spy glass, or even a common opera-glass, on a clear evening. Fcrhaps the quickest and easiest wav to find it will be for the observer to draw an imaginary line through the two stars belonging to the gieat dipiier, which aro designated usually by the Greek let ters Gamma and Alpha. This line, extended downward, will pass very near the comet so near that it will bo impossible to miss it. In close proximity to the comet will b? seen three small stars belonging to the Came leopard. Through a glass the tail of the comet is seen, though its appearance is rather indistinct. Its direction is upward, or, more correctly speaking, toward the zenith. Consulting the table stiil further, we find trat the brightness of the comet rapidly increases until the early part of August, when, having completed its passage around the sun, it recedes with a gradual diminution of light. Its perihelion passage occurs on July 120. In tbo latter part of July it will appear 30 times as brilliant as now, and at its brightest point itwill be 5ß times as bright as now. But from our standpoint the best time for observing it willbeinJuV. After that the comet will be so low down In tbo horizon that it will set before night.

N ONE BUT THB BRAVE.

THE METTERNICH DUEL. THE STORY OF THE PRISCESS SLIGHT THE DUEL ATIDAYLIQHT A LESSON FOR WIVES. The Paria correspondent of the New York Herald gives this amusing history of the late high life unpleasantness. All the world knows that there has been a duel between Prince Matternich and the Count de Montebello, but all the world does not know what the fight was about, or the somewhat unsound moral which has been inculcated by Prince Matternich's victory over his antagonist. The prince, who now only represents the famous vineward of Johannisberg, on the banks of the Rhine, was formerly ambassador at the Court of Imperial France in the piping days of Napoleon III., where be represented his imperial royal apostolic majesty the all-hlghsst emperor of Austria. when that potentate wan mill one of the few remaining despotic soveisigns in the universe. Now the Napoleons have always bad a kind telling lor the house of I lapsburg, and they were peculiarly gracious to Prince Metternich. Indeed, he had many personal claims to esteem besides those which be derived from his high position in dipbmaey. He is a nobleman of the first rank in a country where heraldic qu.trterings are still carefully preserved and iealously guarded. , Although not, perhaps J rriftorl wifVi tha nine hrUIUti m t.ll ligence, be is singularly upright, truthlul and pleasant tempered. His courage is not ol that aggressive sort which delights in provoking a quarrel; it ij of the steady li'ernian order of bravery, which never shrinks from danger. He was, therefore, much beloved and much esteemed by the imperialists, aud was for a long time the principal ornament of their court upon gala days. He sunk, however, into complete insignificance beside his wife, who was and is a bright particular star ot the first magnitude. She is a little scrap of a credture, with eyes of astonishing vivacity and man ners wuicii cuarin every one who comes near her. She used to call herself tho "MONKEY IN FASHION." and, indeed, she is rather winning and grace ful than regularly beautiful, though her fig ure is perfect as that of a little fairy. Such is the lady who gave laws to French society during msny years of tho most splendid reign in French history. She was alwajs inverfling something new and pretty and delightrul, till all that was gay and clival rous in the country bowed down and wor shipped her as queen of the revels and goddess of good taste. Her banquets and her dresses, her wit and amazing talent for saying sprightly things, were the talk of all furore, and a Inch pacing lady could hardly imagine a position m ire agreeable than that which she occupied. Tn emperor t f the French and Prince Metternich, tho Em pros i,ugen le ana mo princess, lived together on terms as intimate s il they had all belonged to the samd larndt', and it is certain that the bright nr. 10 lady wnj has pist sent htr hus . ... . . . . band out in an east wind to light I r his lile, felt a warm attachment lor her imperial friends, and that the natural instincts of a geuerous heart havo caused that attachment to increase in their misfortunes. Thus, immediately tue republic was declare.!. Prince Metternich resigned his ombassy or, rather, ha frankly told the Austrian government that he could no longer beof any use in Paris and he broke un his establishment and went away. It is much easier, however, to leave Paris than to remain away from it; and after a little while I'rinco Metternich aud bis wife YEARNED FOR THE OAY FRENCH I.II E they had quitted, and begin to flit backwards and Hrwards, making a longer halt there every tiinr. I used to see them very olten making funny excuses to themselves and to their friends to explain thoir presence lutne repuoncan city they were goin away," or they had just com?," or "they were passing throusrh'' but still tbev lin gered, and the somewhat stolid figure of the Austrian gentleman and his charming wile oocameouca more laminar to the 1'arasians They did not go everywhere; they could not have We a found at dinner with M eiambetta's aunt, and it is whispered tha they did not regard M. Thiers with the same reverence as he inspires in the mind of M. Umhelemy Saint-Ililaire. They went to some few public places and among people wuo tuougQt anu leu as 1 ney aid ; aua upon one ot tnese occasions they unfortunately mat a deserter from the imperial rans who Dowed to the pnnoe, as ha had been ac customed to bow to her before he turned his oat. Her highness is a small, fiery person 01 quicK sympathies, who does not run away lrom her friends because they have bad an awkward trouble; and she honestly told the renegade Ronapartist that he must not bow to her again, for that she bad resolved to terminate" their acquaintance, The personage who was thus abruptly cut by the great lady is also A i RAND UENrLEUAN in his way, and may have had reasons for changing his politics, which need not be discussed here. He represents almost as fine a wine as Prince Metternich, and being the game relationship toward champagne as unites the Prince to bock. The Montebello brand is as well known in the mar .et as that of Johannisberg, and when two such great vine growers come into collision it Is a sen ous all air. so count Montebello at once called tho Prnse to account for the discour tesy shown to him by the Princess; and heroin I cannot help thinking that he had right and reason upon his side. Society would soon become a bear garden if the people were privileged to insult each other, and there are so many wavs of dropping an' un welcomed acquaint ance without coming to sharp words, that tne princess deserved a lesson, which other .dies would do well to take to heart. The rale has been now clearly established by two of the first gentlemen in Europe, that if a lady says things which ought not to be said, her husband may bo shot or impaled; and it is fervently to be hoped that whenever a lady feels rude she will rememoer that a sharp word may cost the lite of her husband Without any unkind reference to Princess Metternich, whom every one likes and ad mires, it may be frankly acknowledged that society o!ten becomes almost intolerable De cause of the terrible tongues of women. Tbey are apt to act entirely from impulse and feeling, without judgment or consideration for others, simply because they have hitherto been considered irresponsible; and. therefore, immedi ately Priiaeo Metternich was challenged he put forth the old platitude that "a mau could not help what was said by his wife." It is nonsense! He ought to be able to help it, and is boutiil to rule his belongings in such a manner as they shall not become offensive to other people, or to apologize for their misbehavior or to take the consequences ot it. Up to the pro ent time it has invariably happened that whenever any o' those abominable scandals which break the heart ot uentlemen aro found in circulation, nobody can bo brought to punishment. If the aggrieved person whoso honor has been foully slan dered sots out to find bis traducer, be cannot go threefcteps before he is stopped by a pet ticoat, and it is high time that snca privileged indecencies thould be ended or chas tised by heavy penalties. " THE PCEL. The duel between Metternich and Mon tebello was rather a funny affair. In the first place it was a new thing to fight about

a lady's talk, and the seconds wasted to get up another riot. Count de Monte bello,

however, would not hear of that, and he said, very properly, that be had no dispute with Prince Metternich upon any other sub ject Put that which be had put forward, nor would he commence a needless quarrel. Then the seconds could not make up their minds as to which was tu offending party Prince Metternich having personally done nothing to displease Count Montebello. and the queeMon as to which ot them was the offender was important, because it involved the choice of arms. The French trentleman naturally took the rench view of the ease, and wanted to skewer his antagonist as thouch he were a bwl intended lor the srit: the German probably not being very dexterous n me use 01 tne rous, and having no inten tion to eat his foa. thought that il there wis to be a duel at all it ahould be a beavv. tcrious thing, with a leaden bullet in it; no he seconds took to writing these odd offi cial letters which are iu favor amoncr th continental duelists, and ultimately decided maimere kqouiu do no ogiu at an. This was a great com! rt to the noor little Princess who had let ber tongue run so fast and was now half wild with fright. Hut, unfortunately. Frenchmen can never do anything quietly. and after bavins written the prudent documents above mentioned, . they published .them in the morning papers. bocause as much notoriety as possible is invariably given to all the proceedings of a tiial by combat in France. Prudence, somehow, seems to look funny in print; and when it appeared that some extremelf fine folk had bad been making much ado abont nothing. all Europe burst out laughing. A prince and a count could not be expected to stand this, so tbey went to war this time in grim earnest. A hostile meetine was soon arranged. and the next morning Prince Metternich nodded kiudly to his wife and told her he was going to take a walk before break rast. lie told ber nothing else, but shortly after wards she learned that be had ventured a' very pleasant existence for her sake, and had luckily scratched Count Montelello with a sword because sh had affronted him. So the thing ends, and it is to be hoped that she will recollect another time "that sweet words do best become a woman." THE BLACK HILLS. tTSTERS EXPEDITION AND EXPLORATION AMONG THEM THE OBIECr OF THE EXPRDITION ANI ITS E.XCKCTED K ESC LT. The St. Paul Press, of a late date, gves the following interesting account of the region of the Black Hills: The Black Hills country. situated in the Southwestern portion of Da kota, and lying between the B6lle Fourche river and south fork of the Big Chevonne, branches of the Missouri, and extending into Montana, is at the present tinio unex plored by the whito man. Numerous expe ditions have from time to lime been fitted- out for the purpose of exploration, headed by men of indomitable perseverauce and undoubted daring, but none have as yet baen able to Penetrate the region. Thes-3 attempts at exploration have in almost every instance bi-en superinduced by the very general belief that gold and slver are to bo iouuu. Several ot these expeditions have been organized by representative men, General McCook last season, earnestly endeavoring to obtain the consent of tho general governmant to explore it. But tho government has ever refused to grant permission to any ouoto penetrate the Rlack Hills country, laying as it does in the very heart of the Moux Indian reservation; and also refused protection to such parties as have attempted it without government conizince. All such attempts have, however, proved unsuc cessful, and it is said that the toot 01 the white man has never entered the ropion r.'ie Sioux Indians are possessed ot a super stitious beliel that the region is the homo of the departed spirits of the Indians, preparatory to their going to THE n.FFY HUNTINO-fSROUNPS. The Sioux often visit the sacred region tor the purpose of communicating with the de parted spirits. Possessed of this belief. tbev have refused to allow the foot of the white man ever to pollute th9 sacrod soil An order has, however, been recently issued commanding general Custer to make an ex ploration of the region, and ten companies ol cavalry and two ot artillery are fitting for the exiedition, and will leave Ivors L.iu coin ubout the l'th of June, providing nothipg occurs which will necessarily divert the attention of the forces uoou the frontier. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Grace and General Forsythe, ot Sheridan's staff, accompany the expedition, ami Colonel Ludlow, chief of engineers, now located at this point, will have charge of the survey. Several experienced miners will also accompany the expedition for the purpose of examining the claimed mineral deposits, and it is believed that the mystery appettaining to the region will be lully and satisfactorily solved. While it is not the purpose of the ex ploration to wage war upon the In dian tribes, there is no doubt that the eipe dition wiil meet with the most violent oppo sition. Neither is It the purpose ol the ex pedition to permit ot any citizens accompany in the forces into the Black Hills couutry. Several indepjndent expeditions are already talked of. One i said to be lorming at Sioux Citr, and another at Bismarck under the lead of Chris. Gibson, an Indian scout and a man who has before STOOD FIRE. These expeditions propose to follow in the wake of General Custer and his forces, but the government will oppose all such attempts. It is equally the purpose of the government to protect the Indians against the invsiMon by fillrlbustcrlng expeditious. and to explore the uuknown region. Fur ther than this it has ever been th9 policy of the war department to keep the tro;ps movimz into the Irjian country so as to prove to lne lujauuauis mat uey are watched, and any depredations or attempts to leave the reservations will be met with punishment. This, doubtless, is in a great degree the -purpose of the expedition now forming. The threatened outbreak which tho telegraph announces may delay the expedition, and i' the hostilities are long continued, must result in th postponement ol the project for the present. The Sioux have Jong been spoiling for war with the Rees, and have waged it unon them whenever it were possible. offering every insult known to Indian war tare. Should they make an an attack, as it is alleged is tbeir purpose, upon , the Rees, who are friendly to the whiiea, government protection will be teudered them. The Sioux, as a sequence, must finally be repulsed, and, should this bo the case, they would not, in an proDaouity, make violent opposition to the Black Hills expedition, having tested the strength of the iorcos in contests resulting .disastrously. At "all events, whatever shall bo tho result of the threatened outbreak, the result of General Custer's Black Hills expedition of exploration will be awai'.ed with interest, whether attended with bloody conllicts with the Indians, or otherwise. Some antiquariau has jut discovered that Washington received the degree of L. L. D. from Yale, Harvard, Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania.

NEW YORK RIOTS. THE CELEBRATEP TtlOTS IX GOTHAM THEIR CAUSES AND MANNÜR OF TERMINATION. The New York Evening Post contains this account 01" celebrated riots in that citv. as given by Mr. George W. Biotin." The first was the "flour riot" in Meu wanted employment. Provisions wereda.ir. 'Down with the raps," and "Give us gold and silver," were the mottoes on the tenners of ihn rioters. With a view of dieapeningfijur the mob broke into Eli Hart's flour 8Vre, rolled the barrels out, stove in the beads, and threw the contents into tho river. Mr. Lawrence was then the mayor, lie went to the store and spoke sweet iv to the ineb. One of them threw a double haudful into his face, and cut off hi eloquence. I took this rioter a prisoner to the c ty hall, but he was let off. The riot ended that night. The next riot was that caused bv :ae remarks of Dr. Cox, who intimated that neivKvi had some rights which white men should respect. Mr. Lswrence was stilt mayor. The riot 1 astad three nights. The rioting was ail done after nightLtll. On the the third day I offered my services to the major,- who turned me over to Justice bowndec. He assigned me a district to patrol on horseback. I rode all niht, and reported that the riot was one ot bod boys only. Had there leen any energy in the tnavar it would hav been stopped the very first night. THE ASTOR PLACE K.OT. "The next was the Astor place riot. The esuae of It was the quarrel of Ma?redy and Forrest, the actors. This, in my opinion, was got up by a notorious politician, who tho day bofore the riot went to Windust's mating house with a handbill to this effect : 'The crews of the British steamers will be on lvand to protect Macredy this niefct." He caused the baud bill to bs stuck up.defied anyone to take it down, gave his ru:lins (1.) In number) drinks, and went on his errand. He that night, as I understood.

did uot iro to Astor place, but rode up and down Broadway in an omnibus. The Astor plae riot had its good and bad results. The mayor. Mr. Woodhull, was timid. Hs stayed in the New York hotel. The au.b filled Astor place. A company of cavalry came up, and most of the riders were thrown off their horses by the mob. Gen. Hall, with the 7th regiment, then came on the ground and waited for orders from the ciyil authorities. The mob increased in numbers and violence. Gen. Hall and his command were assailed with stones. He went into tho theatre and said to Recorder Talmaüee: 'Unless I have orders to lire I shall with draw my troops." Mr. Talmadge went out an 1 gave the order. The soldiers at their first fire, with a mistaken idea of humanity. fired high thereby killing and wounding innocent people passing In th Bowery. The rioters thereupon jeered the troops, who. seeing their mistake, then bred into the midst of them, which dispersed the mob im mediately. "I was in the thickest part of the mob, arrested a rioter in tho act ol throwing stones at the theater, succeeded in drair.g him through the mob, and was asked 'what had he done to ine.' I found that Iliad caught a Tartar. I look him to Broadway, where he made jump and ran away. 1 did not teei 'that 0 tonny we met, 0 inlv we partoil,' but I was glad to get rid or him. I then went amongst the mob and told them they would be fired on. nud advised them to leave. The good result of this riot, was that those who mako mobs get a !e?on to profit bv. The bad result was the encouragement of "violence, due to Tiot hung right into the rioters at cuce. THE DRAFT RIOT. 'The last rioVthat of July 13, IS'. which lasted four days, should have baen put dnwn on the second day. I was with General Wool on the night ot Mondty, the day it be gin. I wont out to s?e what wh doing, reported to him what I saw. The next morn ing I met mm at the I'rescott house. xidiers had come up from the forts in the harbor, and were taking breakfast. I told the general that f thought he should declare martial law and put it in force. The general said he could not. as ho had not tho means of enforcing it. I said that the rioters did not know of his deficiency of means; that they bad that indefinite dread i the law which all law breakers have; sad that we had all the patriotic feeliiiir. ol the country on our side. As the general would not act I went to the police headquarters with that grand old soldier. General Harvey Brown, and did what I could. Governor Seymour's 'friends Lad their way for four days, he and his democratic associates doing their b-st to have tho troops withdrawn. At the end of lour days sierv were taken to put the riot down by force, which was done. Had it been dorv ot! Tuesday, many lives would have b-en saved. "Tho le'sson I wish to teach is: Never treat with a nub. Napoleon gave the mob, at Paris, a sermon from the church of St. lloche, of the kind to preach to mobs. EXTENDING THE TELEGRAPH. A COMBINATION OF THE WESTERN UNION ANI TIIB AMERICAN DISTRICT COM PA N I KS T II E l'HOPOSED OVERXMENTS LINES. The New York World contains the following item concerning telegraphic enterprise: The negotiations which have been pending lor tsomo time past between the Western Union and the American District Telegraph Companies have just bean completed. The contract which has been signed provides for a general business alliance wherever their systems have been established in the United States. Offices are to be established and maintained upon the principle of mutual interest. All messages intended for the city above Chambers street will hereafter be made by the American District Telegraph Company. Twenty-eight offices are to be established in New York, and others will bo opened when the companies deem it necessary to do so. Five of this number will remain open for business day and night. Six others ol the American District Company will be kept open all night, and niessaes will be irasmitted over the v estern I nion line, thus making eleven cilices altogether constantly open for the transaction of business. A new government telegraph line is to be at once laid down lor the better protection of the frontier settlements of Texas against Indian and Mexican depred&ticn, the line to be continued from the city of Dennison. Tex., to Fort Sill, Iudian territory, and along the military pes-ts to B ownsville, lor which tho government has made en appropriation of $lüü.O00. The following route for tho line has been adopted by tbe s-eretary of war: From DennUon to Fort Sil!, Indian Territory, thence along thenorthern frontier line of settlements toForts Grifilu and Conchar, fhenre lo the Peco river at the mouth of Tokah creek, thence to Fort Clark on Los a creek. thence to Fort Duncan on th Rio Grinde, down tbe Rio Grande, via Fort Mdntosh and Ringold Barracks, to Brownsville, con necting with the different mili'ary post. The?e posts are about one hu drei and City to two bundrt?d miles apart, and extend over r.iten nunarea nines, 'ine con tract which has exited for some time past between the Union Pacitio and the Western Union Telegraph Comptny has been terminated, the Union Pacific authorities considering the contract was a vr-ry oneious one. They were compelled to carry larjre quantities of freight and operatives, and they reckon its abrogation as equivalent to a saving of at least ?Ö0,0C0 per year. The Atlantic aud Pacific Teh graph lines will ho greatly benefited by this arrangement, as it will give them a wider rarge lor competition in their California business. Tbey are about to conFtruct an iiulepentlent line from Omaha to Chicago, and thus complete thoir Lsyetem of lines between the two ocoaus'