Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 November 1871 — Page 2

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WKI3KLY EXPRESS.

*EEB,E HAUTE, IND

^V^Mlncsduy Morning, Nov. 29, lBSl

MR. SEWAKD PROPOSES to write on account of Iii8 late wanderingR.\i

Ex CONGRESSMAN GEOKGK W. JL'LIAN has a volume of speeches in press.

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WHAT has become of one THOMAS A. IIKNDKiCK-', late Democratic candidate i'.ir tlie Presidency? t-

SMASHING kerosene lamps seems 10 be prominent item in ihe daily programme ol Evansviile servant girls.

1'jia Board o: School Commissioners, of Indianapolis, has resolved to build three ivnrd ."-chool buildings, to cost $17,000 each.'-' j'- .•••••

TIM: leader in last. Saturday's Indianapolis "Sentinel" winds like the Dead Match for the Democratic party'b funeral.

THE Cincinnati "Gazette makes the almost incredible statement that the enormows Mini of §6,009,500 is spent for beer anntiaUv. in that city.

THE Louisville "Ledger" pronounces the 'Possum Policy "a proposition to sell llie Democratic birthright without even obtaining for it a mens of pottage."

Tiff Democratic Slate org:tn came out Monday with a (laming leader "About Sewerage." The party evidently needs a

good system of underground drainage.

DANIEL intimates thai heand his friends will be glad to gulp down any "authoritative expression of principles" that may be enunciated by a National Convention.

AN imaginative correspondent of the New York "Herald" gives a synopsis of President GRANT'S forthcoming message. He knows as much about it as any of us!

MUST we continue to ask in a vain for a small assortment of those "'old watchwords" that the "Joitrnil" says "must be passed along the lines?"

THE tax levy for*county purposes, this year, will yield but little more than enough to take up outstanding orders, leaving a delighfn! prospect for the future!

THE local agent of the Western Associated Press caused Mr. VOOKIIEES' call to be telegraphed all over the country. Now, let us see what the country says of it!

DANIEL'S' discipline of principle" having panned out mighty thin, he now roars for a special convention of the Democratic party to take the business off his hands.

THE Trenton "Gazette" wants the New Jersey Legislature to submit a proposition to the people to strike the word "white" from the Constitution of the State.

THE Democratic State organ prints Mr. VOOIIHEES' lusty call for a special National Convention, but says never a word in response. This silence is very significant.

DANIEL thinks the Democracy are suffering for a platform. They had better waste no lumber on that sort of carpenter work. They'll need it for their coffin very soon.

11 US KOYAT, HIGHNESS, the Princess ALEXANDRA, is reported sick. Royalty is no protection against most of the ills, of this life, as the history, of this woman forcibly attests.

THE Democrats have not been beaten HO badly as this year in New York since 1838, when the Whigs had one hundred members in the Assembly an 1 the Democrats twenty eight.

A STATISTICIAN has discovered that the quantity of beer manufactured in New Jersey last year gives two and one-half barrels to every man, woman and} child in the commonwealth.

HERE'S economy for yon! The night police of Augusta, Maine, has been reduced to two individuals, on account of the danger of exceeding the annual appropriation to pay the expenses of that

department. 1 THE Democratic State organ weeps— ay, fairly gushes barrels of the lachrymal lluid—over the wayward course of the Torre Ilauto "Journal." Will the "Journal" repent and "cave?" Or will it still exalt its vertebra'?

GAit RETT DAVIShashit upon a plan—not quite original—of compelling attention to his speeches in the Senate thii winter. If Senators fail to listen to the lirst reading, lie threatens to read until "proper respect" is shown him.

THE Boston "Journal" wants the Republicans of that city to second the nom-iuation'-of Mr. WILLIAM GASTON by the Democrats for re-election as Mayor of Boston, and the other Republican newspapers will not probably oppose that

course. .*».». HON. WILLIAM D. KELLEY'S volume of "Speeches, Addresses and Letters on Industrial and Financial Questions," heretofore announced, has just been issued from the press of HENRY CAREY BAIRD, of Philadelphia. It is a handsome octavo of over 500 pages.

Ls THERE no earthly way by which we can git rid of the Grant-Dent family?— ('ourta -Journal.

There seems no way by which your partv can accomplish that obj -et—unless vou can ttiul another WILICKS BOOTH, and set bitn

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Mil. VOORHIC^S issues a loud call for a preliminary or extra National Democratic Convention to lis up a -et of principles for the party. That is only one of tlie poor oid party's tnany wants. And has done without principlessoloaji that it «"ftuldu't know what to do with them.

SOME months ago, foreseeing the defeat of the new departure, and the consequent rise of Bourbon stock, we "invented" Mr. VOOKIIEES as A Presidential candida'e. We now give solemn notice that, unless our suggestion is properly seconded within the next thirty days, we shall withdraw DANIEL from the market.

THE New York "Tribune" mentions, as a circumstance highly creditable to the Republican party, the fact that its candidates for Senators and Asemblymen throughout the Stale, with a very few exceptions, have received a lamer vote, than that cast for the State tickct. The explan ation of this is that they were known as better men than their Democratic oppo

nents.

"Journal" is indignant because

the "Sentinel" calls it a "mouthpiece.' What's the harm in that? 1hs "mouthpiece" if the bit that guides the steed

THE editor of the Indianapolis "Commercial" will accept thanks for his very handsome notice of this paper. We fear, however, that it is the partial judgment of an old tin:? frlertd that finds oar coliiruns "the mo-it spicy political^ reading in the State."

IN MB. VOORHEES' call for a special National Democratic Convention to fix up things, he expresses a decided preference for the Indiana Democratic platform of 1870. It happens that the progress of events has made that piece of political carpentry aA obsolete as the DBED SCOTT decision.

CONGRESS meets next Monday. It will lind the country prosperous, and the Republican party in splendid health. Let ii be very cautious how it attempts to doctor either. A large diminution of taxation can and will be effected. Beyond this, there are but few subjects of great importance requiring congressional action.

FROM the fact that the Democratic County Executive Committee met at the office of Mr. VOOKIIEES, last Saturday, ii. may be fairly assumed that the call for a special National Convention—with an emergency clause attached—meets the approval of those fathers in the Democratic Church.

THE most mortifying circumstance connected with the recent eflort ol DANIEL and the "Journal" to reorganize the Democratic party on a Bourbon base, i.s the fact that even the Democracy of Sullivan county fail to respond 1 Their organ has not yelped a single responsive note. Why? We suspect that the editor of the Sullivan "Democrat" is notmuch enamored of "dead issues."

How about the time honored Eighth-of-January Sate Convention?—KvanmUe Journal.

Gues that's "gone up." The Democratic State organ appears to think that, in the present moribund condition 'of the party, it isn't a bit of use to hold a convention on St. Andrew's Diy, or at any cfllier time. How would it do to have the unterrified called together at the Capital on St. Patrick's day to hold a grand "wake" over the'defunct organization?

IT IS announced that the legality (if the present form of government for the District of Columbia is about to be tested in a suit to be brought before the next term of the Supreme Court. The persons about to institute this suit hold that Congress has no right totransfer any portion of its legislative power to corporations, and further, that citizenship, in the constitutj^pal sense can not attach in that District, as under the Constitution the territory is specially set apart for government purposes.

A WASHINGTON SPECIAL to the Cincinnati "(iazette." states that Mr. ELLIOTT, the colored member of Congress from South Carolina, while in an oyster saloon the other evening, was grossly insulted by a young white man, who was taking a lunch when he came in and was also under the influence ot liquor. Ascertaining that this young man, who could not eat in the presence of a negro, was a government clerk, hemade a representation of the latter's conduct at the departmet where he was employed, and the clerk was discharged.

THE editor of our morning Democratic cotemporary appears to be getting into more than "a heap of trouble" with the organs of his own political faith- The Indianapolis "Sentinel" bombards him. The Evansville "Courier" rakes him fore and aft. A leading Vigo county Democrat takes him over his knee, through the "Sentinel's'' columns. And as if all these afllictions were not enough, the Vincennes "Sun" detaches a heavy field battery, commanded by General KISE in person, which takes up a strong position and opens a terrible fire on our neighbor's castle! A white flag may be expected to flutter over the "Journal" ofiicc in the course of a day or two.

SECRETARY BOUTWELL has received a report from Solicitor BAKFIELD slating that the number of suits for the year against defaulting officers, or their bonds, and for fines, penalties, &c., was two thousand one hundred and sixteen and the amount involved, twelve and one-half millions. Four hundred and ninety-three suits were decided in favor of the United States, twenty-four against, and three hundred and eighty-seven seUlecLand dismissed with those pending at thr beginning of the year. This year two thousand eight hundred and four suits were disposed of, aud the whole amount collected was SI,290,000, against $477,000 last year.

MR. A. II. CONNER comes down like a little man, and refunds eighteen thousand dollars to the State. Has anybody ever heard of a prominent Democrat refunding any money which he had come in possession of unlawfully?—Evansville Journal.

No, that would be diametrically opposed to Democratic precedents, practices and principles. Their policy ii to steal all they can, stick to all they steal, and when a Republican voluntarily"shells out' money obtained illegally, they show their magnanimity by showering on him a Hood of ''ile epithets. When they see a fellow down, then their courage prompts them to pounce on him and hit him. Such is the chivalry of modern Democracy. -Nli,

Ir APPEARS by decisions recently given in the courts of Pennsylvania and NewYork that a tradesman cannot hold a husband responsible for the debts contracied bv his wife in his name, unless they first assure themselves that the husband's means will justify the expenditure. It is onlv necessary now, in those States, that a husband should be able to prove that he furnishes his wife with what are necessary articles, as fjr as his means have permit in order to get rid of demands for the payment of what is extravagant so that if dry goods men will trust the promise of Mrs. MCFLIMSEY, and she is not able to pav, they cannot compel Mr. MBFI.IMSEY to come down with the. stamps if his wife's extravagance-s are greater than his means will allow.

THE Philadelphia papers announce that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has closed a contract with the International Navigation Company between Philadelphia, Antwerp and Belgium By it terms the Pennsylvania Company agrees to provide, on or before the 1st of January, 187 :, at least three iron steamships, of not less than twenty-five tors burden, to run between Philadelphia and Antwerp or some other Continental port, the railroad to give ihe company the benefits of its lower rates to and from Philadelphia as against New Yoik a difference in favor ot" Philadelphia of about twenty per cent, of the rateso! transportation between

md is really a most valuable portion of steamships was preiuam e, as (he com the harness. If the "Sentinel" had said panv has not entirely perfected all i:s that our local Bourbon organ wits the plans. It has not yet been definitely subcaudal loop extending learward from settled whether Antwerp or some other the backstrap, theie might have been I Continental port will he the European ground for a show of indigo:"i-m. Itermir.u*.

New York and Philadelphia. The line is in ihe interest of Me-srs. PEIKK WRIGHT|"rings" & SONS, and other Philadelphia capital ists, and is calculated to advance the commerce of that city. The announce ment heretofore made in regard to the

Expressive Silence.

Mr. VOORHEES' call for Especial con* vehtion, to manufacture a set of copperbottomed principles for hie poor old played oat party, was telegraphed to the Associated Press, and appeared in moat of the leading newspapers yesterday. But not a single Democratic journal, thus far Teceive'd at this office, contains even the slightest editorial allusion to it. In fact, the Cincinnati "Enquirer" entirely suppressed it—an exhibition of petty malice and contempt for our Member of Congress calculated to excite profound indignation We hereby notify the editor of the "Enquirer" that our DANIEL must not be treated in so shabby a fashion. When he pipes, the "Enquirer" man must dance,

he'll get a tasie of that doable-leaded "discipline of principle" that will raise a regular "rinctum" among his gastronomic apparatus.

From these indications it is sadly ap-' parent that this call has fallen, "flat as a flounder," upon "the dnll, cold ear^of death." The silence with which the Bourbon veils of DANIEL'S home organ were received, a week or two ago, is duplicated as the only response to this hoarse howl for a special convention of principle-tinkers! "The old fatth of the party" ha=n't been "reaffirmed" worth a cent! "The old watchwords" haven't been "passed along the lines"—"nary time." And when DANIEL, in the last extremity of despair, roars for a convention, there comes not back at single^,answering shout'

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Under these painfully humiliating cir cumstances, any other man than DANIEL would begin to suspect—what all the rejt of the world has known for a long time that the "old issues" are doubly dead, and that those politicians who attempt to_jjpvive them in this year of our Lord 1S71 arc politically damned. The ominous sleuce of the organs and leaders of Mr VOORIIEES' parly to all his screams, screeches, yells and calls, speaks to every ear, but his, the irrevocable sentence of his political damnation. The acceptance by the people of those United States of the great principle of political equality embodied in the Ffteenth Amendment, has taken from DANIEL W. VOORHEES the last iota of his political capital, and left him poor indeed. By pandering to a cruel prejudice—now almost extinct,—he triumphed in his last campaign. But the ground on which he stood then, has been knocked from under his feet by the irresistable march of progress, and he has sj^own neither capacity nor inclination to adapt himself to the changed condition of his surroundings. The politician who thinks to make headway now, or next year, by howling about "negro suffrage," is as far behind the times as the managers of our Opera House would be if they should insist on lighting that magnificent edifice with tallow dips. We don't expect Mr. VOORHEES to see this. It not easy for a man of his peculiar mental.construction to realize that his political all is as worthless and obsolate as the rags that wrap Egyptian mummies. But his best friends, here at his own home, the most sagaciou* members of his own party, feel and admit the awful mistake that he has made. They sadly Eee the humiliation of their old leadeiitis he sounds his horn and net a solitary follower responds to the call

THE Indianapolis "Sentinel" of last Saturday states that the editor has obtained the opinion of leading Democrats all over the State as to the time of holding the State Conventioc, and a very large preponderance are in favor of postponing the Convention until a late date. To this, the Terre Haute "Journal" lAakes this stinging retort:

The truth about it is, that some people have a great faculty of manufacturing public opinion to suit their peculiar views and opinions. We do not know a single Democrat in this city or county that is not in favor of holding the Convention on the 8th of January and, as far as our knowledge extends, the same may be said of Democrats in the neighboring counties.

We are inclined to believe that the position Assumed by the State organ is more Ihe result of its own desires, than the reflection of the will of any considerable portion of the leading Democrats of the State.

Reduced to good Democratic English that means about this: BRIGHT is afraid to have a Democratic State Convention meet, because he fears it will pass a vote of censure upon him. For this reason he "manufactures public opinion" or lies about it, in order to "put far off the evil day." We shall see what R. J. B. will say to this. *J

"A Few Plain Words

A gentleman whose hat covers one Of the soundest Democratic heads in the State, says this, in a Terre Hauteletter to the "Sentinel": "It would be difficult to satisfy any reasonable and thinking man that a ten months' canvass (from January 8, 1872, to October 12,1872,) is necessary or proper at this time. But a short half*dozen men, prominent in the Democratic party, think so, and they are not remarkable for polit ical sagacity or far-seeing policy."

That "short half dozen" who "are not remarkable for political sagacity or farseeing policy," are the "Journal" clique, headed by Mr. VOORHEES. What have they to say in reply?

But this correspondent never does things by halves. He (ires this center shot at our Tall Sycamore with steady aim: "We trust there is manliness enough in the Democratic party of Indiana and its Central Committee to refuse submission to this goading process A five months' canvass (beginning in June) should satisfy our most loquacious orators, and some of them would probably become ''flat, stale, and unprofitable," in half that time. A quick, sharp canvass, with speakers suited to the present state of the country, is what we want. Will not four or five months be sufficient for all this? What practical, public man wishes or would have a ten months canvass—a dull and stupid recital of ante war issues, having no connection or fitness with the questions nor: before the country? If tiiere are such persons (and sad experience teaches us that some such "lag superfluous" on the political stage,) it might be well enough for them to consider how far their policy tends to the success of the Democratic partv in the State and Nation. A few ambitious men, looking alone to their personal and political safety, may advise haste and rashness, but the way to victory does not lie in thai direction."

It is DANIEL'S turn now, but he may find it convenient to ignore the thinlydisguised personalities of the '"Sentinel's" able correspondent. We are confident that prudence would induce him to do so, if he possessed that quality.

TUE Democracy at the State Capital must be in a bad way, if this picture, drawn by the editor of the "Sentinel," is

a fair showing. It is amusing to read the outside allusions to and denunciations of "'-J:— apolis rings," other pet names, when it is known to Indianapolis that there are hardly enough Democrats here agreeing upon any question of party policy to form a "ring" or

THE New York "Evening Post" thinks a striking proof of the injury inflicted upon this country by the rascality of Tatoi^an^s furnished by Mr. PAUL B. DUCHAILLU, whos», recent retprta ho*e we have already noticed. He'^says that the |ieas(i$ts ofSweden :ire wel#

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ed witb.tfote. fact that some twenty mil* lions ars have been stolen from the citizens of New York, and that they shrewdly add that no one will be sent to prison FOR,it. Mr. DCCHAILLU frequently heard remarks of the same kind while o% his way to this country. The American character, which has always had an unenviable reputation on the continent for extravagance, from this time forth is in danger of having added to that, for a generation, the character of downright, thievishness.

THE attention of the Attorney General ia invited to this plain statement, raadeby the New Albany "Ledger," one of the most prominent Demacratic organs in the State:

Whatever moral obligations may rest upon the Sate official for paying into the State Treasury moneys obtained by an improper use of the public funds, there is no legal obligation resting upon them fo do HO, and of consequence there can rest upon the securities no penalty if they do not do it. This prosecution of fifty or a hundred citizens all over the State, causing expense and time to delend themselves, against obligations long since discharged, seems to us unnecessary, and un just.

And this from the same: While we have been earnest and uncompromising in urging that the proper guardians of the law shall see to it that the State receive no detriment from dishonest officials, we have never indulged in the indiscriminate charge of "Treasury thieves" against those who have complied with the strict letter of the law, but have on the contrary blamed the Attorney General for passing over the cases of parties —such as the Slate Printers, who have obtained money fraudulently—to take Up first supposed delinquents of eight or ten •years standing, whose securities have long been discharged.

Slight Unpleasantness. 'i

The Indianapolis "Sentinel" comes back at theTerre Haute "Journal" in this mild and gentle strain: 1. We do not know of any leading Democrats, except a few gentlemen in Terre Haute, but who are in favor of postponing the Convention until a later day, and many of the most sagacious and influential Democrats in the Stale are free to say that an early Convention would not only be unwise policy, but suicidal. 2. A prominent, influential and able Democrat, of Vigo county, writes us, and we publish a communication from him in to day's paper, that but very few of the Democracy of Terre Haute and Vigo county are in favor of holding the Convention on the 8th of January, or aby other early day. And he urges the Committee to stand firm in not committing so fatal an error. 3. As a measure of patty polity we think, nay, we know, that we reflect the will of a very large majority of the party throughout the State in the position we have taken in regard to deferring the holding of the Slate Convention to a late day. In", regard to our "own desires" in the matter, and so far as our personal intercuts are concerned, we care not if the convention be held on the 8th of January, the 4th of July, or any other day in fact, whether the convention is ever held.

That "prominent, influential and able Democrat of Vigo county," whose letter appears in yesterday's "Sentinel," is a gentleman of brains and character, who lakes no pains to conceal his disgust with the Bourbon screeches of VOORIIEES and the "Journal." J. Fcnimore Cooper's Domestic

cllfe.

Resigning his position in the navy, Mr. Cooper, at the age of twenty-two married Miss Susan De Lancey. sister of the Bishop of Western New York and now that twenty years have passed since the graves of husband and wife were made in the little church-yard under the pines, comment may be permitted, and with the more freedom since sooner or later, the lives of eminent men must necessarily become the property of the public. Among the sad heart-histories which the biographies of men of genius are almost sure to reveal, the charming love story of Fenimore Ctooper and his wife shines out with pure radiance, an ideal picture of a happy marriage. A lovely, accomplished woman, Mrs. Cooper was blessed with the unchanging, tender devotion of her husband through forty long years and even in death they were not separated, for within four months after the husband's departure his gentle wife followed him, a fit resident for that heaven for which her wh#le life had been one constant preparation. Mrs. Cooper was retiring and feminine in every movement, word, and action. Her strong, impetuous husband—massive and •vigorous in frame, decided and independent in action—yielding: to her a chivalrous devotion most beautiful and rare. She was his preferred companion above all others, and in his daily drives to his farm, called the Chalet, he always wanted her by his side, while in the evening his favorite amusement was a game of chess with his wife as antagonist. Although children grew up around them, although the hospitable mansion was often filled with distinguished and delightful guests, although time passed and they grew old, the husband and wife never sank into the mere father and mother, but to the last they cherished for each other that fresh affection which is so seldom seen after the bloom of youth and charm of novelty have passed away. The fair gentle women who hover over Cooper's pages were patterned after his beloved wife, who, happily occupied in her own quiet sphere, was content tofolloiv the oldfashioned rule of the Bible, that "the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of ihe Church, in every thing."

After his marriage Mr. Cooper lived for some time at Scarsdale, in Westchester county, and here he wrote his first story, "Precaution," a tale of English life. He was reading an English novel aloud to his wife, when suddenly he threw down the book and exclaimed, "I believe I could write a better myself." Following the impulse, he immediately composed a few chapters and read them to Mrs. Cooper, who encouraged him in the work, and urged him to publish it when completed, although at this time he had no intention of appearing before the public. The manuscript, however, was at length submitted to the late Charles Wilkes, and meeting with his approval, was published in 1820, winning favorable notice in this ccuntry and England, and showing germs of that genius which, when employed upon a more congenial and original subject, gained for the author such triumphant success. In 1821, Mr. Cooper published the Spy," which was immediately and brilliantly successful, being the first spirited story" of our Revolutionary war, and thus opening a new era in American literature. The "Spy" has been translated into all the languages of Europe, and even crossed the borders into Asia, a Persian version having appeared in 1847 at Aspahan.

From 1821 until his death, a period of thirty years, Mr. Cooper published no less than'thirty-nine volumes, thirty-two being novels—an amount of mental and physical labor which justly entitles him to be called a hard-working man for although he

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cHqI.e,'ra^ the antagonisms among the doo^Jcr^at io^n an ^tina^e I Democrats here are just as deeded and »™na o« aoo^

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and "cl.qu^at the capital.

THE Indianapolis "Sentinel" closes a mournful article with this wail of despair:

And we will add in conclusion, that if Democratic papers continue their assaults upon Democrats, like those we have qno:ed from the Terre Haute "Journal," ii" thev are countenanced by the party, it will make but little difference whether a convention is held on the 8th of Janua,y, al any other time, or in fact at all.

employed his daugh

ters as amanuenses, still the work of composing and preparing even one book for the press is arduous, as any doubter will find if he tries it.

In recalling the number of volumes that the authors pen produced it might naturally be suppesed that his whole time

nen.M.c.m.u..-. was devoted to writing but, instead of Indianapolis cliques," and KnS

Rising earlv in the morning, he generally accomplished all his writing before breakftist, which took place at nine, devoting the hours in the middle of the day to his

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OHEHaIfOF THE/vtonai'8 W H6AD TORN AWAY

The Murderer Captured and Inearcerated in the County Jail.

ftoiit the 'Ind. Jov,rnal.\ 4/i vXi't The crowning atrocity of the criminal annals of ourcity has now come tip ftfr record—the bloodiest murder.that has ever disgraced Indianapolis. Ilie horrible Buchanan tragedy, in I860, when a man chopped open his wile's head, doe not compare forfiendishness with one thaB was perpetrated in McKernansville yesk erday

James Foster, the murderer, is ostensibly a day laborer, bat really au idle, worthless vagabond, conitautly creating disturbahces and theatening peaceably neighbors. He has done no work for more than eight month?, and has been supported by two Sisters, who work in one of the paper iiiiils to supply their vagabond brother with means of subsistence, James- Hatfield, his victim, is Foster's brother-in-law, the two men having married two sisters, daughters of a man named Owen, living on the corner of. Jones and West streets. Hatfield had five small children. He was quite industrious, and was a day laborer, taking odd jo6s wherever he found them. His family have been living through the summer and autumn at Bridgeport, in this county but he had recently secured a situation in a slaughter house in this city, and was moving them into a house belonging to the Fosters, on the corner of Rockweefc' and Dakota streets. Foster is a brother of William Faster, a fourth-rate lawyer of this city, now teaching school about fifteen miles in the country. His father and another brother also live here.

There are two statements as to the immediate causes of the deed, both of which seem equally credible, and both of which are vouched for by neighbors and acquaintances of the parties. The following, which we believe to ^hfethe correct one, is given first:

About three weeks ago, one Thomas Reeves, who had several times been threatened by Foster, had the latter taken before Justice Boggess, who, on the 16th inst., bound him over to-keep the peace toward Reeves. This SO^HIH^ Foster that he became more threateimig than ever, and declared his intention on several different occasions to kill Reeves. Yesterday forenoon he started out from the house of his father-in-law, with the avowed intention of making an end of his enemy. He went to his father's hcuse, procured an old rusty army musket that belonged to his brother, loaded it very heavily with powder and buckshot and went in search of Reeves. He hunted for his^ in tended victim about two hours, and then, giving up the pursuit, returned to the house on the corner of Rockwood and Dakota streets, in McKernansville, in the neighberhood known as the White Row, which belonged to the Fosters, and into which Hatfield and his family were moving. He entered at the back door, through a shed, and commenced abusing his brother-in-law. The latter ordered him off, and the two became involved in a quarrel, whereupon Foster drew up his gun, held the muzzle three or four feet from Hatfield's head, and fired. The shot carried away almost one-half of the victim's head, and he of course fell and expired instantly. Mrs. Owen, the mother of Hatfield's wife, was standing near him at the time, and says the shot grazed her temple, the burnt powder smirching her face. This statement is vouched tor by Justice Boggess, who bound Foster over to keep the peace, and Mrs. Nancy Kenlev, of No. 11 Dakota street, a neighbor of the family.

The other statement is to the effect that there had been a quarrel between Foster and Hatfield that the case of Reeves had nothing whatever to do with the affair, and that Foster loaded the gun with slugs with the avowed intention of killing his brother in-law. Some weeks since, it is alleged, Hatfield bought the gun with which the shooting was done of Foster, and bartered it away with a neighbor for a bog. Just after this trade was concluded, and Hatfield was about to deliver the gun, he found that it had been taken away by Foster. This led to the quarrel which terminated fatally. It is said that Foster started out in search of Hatfield early in the morning, not supposing that he had arrived at the house so soon with his goods, but finally went to the place, stationed himself in the shed, and deliberately shot his victim as he was about to pass out of the door. Hatfield had in his hand when his body was found an ordinary pocket knife, which was not open, and which he had, in all probability, been using about the bedding, furniture, etc.. which he was setting up in Ihe house. The recoil of the gun, heavily charged as it was, lacerated the murdt er's right hand badly.

After the commission of the deed, Foster at once set about for means of escape. He first went to bis father's house, left the gun, and started out on foot in the direction of the Bluff road, and stopped in the saloon of Fred. Clare. Here he remained until a farmer passed by in a -vagon, going toward the country. Foster hailed him, asked for permission to ride^ut with him, and was taken into the wagon. As they rode on together the farmer engaged his passenger in conversation, and asked him how he had hurt his hand. (Foster had by this time bound his cut hand with his handkerchief.) He replied that he had been killing hoes, and had accidentally cut himself. They rode on in this way about two miles on the BlulV tail,

In the meantime the inteliige of the murder had reached the police-, and officers Elliott Preston and Sam Buser set out in pursuit of the murderer. They traced him to Clare's saloon, and found out that he had left there, but could not learn in which direction he had gone. They surmised, however, that he had fled toward the country, and set out down the B'uff road on foot.. They passed rapidly along, and soon came in sight of the farmer's wagon. The thought that the fugitive might be in the wagon did notocc to the policemen, but they naturally de«ired a lift along the road, and, making considerable haste, overtook the wagon and climbed in behind. Faster and the farmer were discussing the subject of chopping wood, the former telling of the fabulous amounts that he had cut on certain occasions: He could cut more wood, he said, than any man living. Just then Preston saw the bandaged hand of the man, and at once suspected that all was not right. He questioned Foster about the wound and received the same reply—that he had been killing hogs, and had hurt himself. The police asked for the man's name. Foster replied, "What busines is it to you what my name is?" Leaving Butffcr talking to the murderer, Preston stepped up beside the farmer, and asked him about his passenger—where he had pickek him up, what his name was, etc. The Farmer replied tha the had taken ilim on at the saloon, and that he gave his name as Foster. Of course this was enough, and the murderer was arresed at once. He offerred no resistance, but said "All right don't worry yourselves. I'll come along." He was brought to the city, and put in the county jail, on a commitment issued by Justice Boggess.

Our reporter interviewed the prisoner at the jail yesterday afternoon, and found him one of those men who seem to have been designed by nature for the gallows. His appearance is extremely brutal and murderous. His g^ib was ragged and filthy, and arour.d his neck he had tied a soiled handkerchief. He is above the medium highth, slenderly built, has dark hair and a slight mustache, and has the low and brutal cast of countenance which is generally found in murderers. He refused to answer most of the questions put to him, but says Hatfield attacked him and, cut him in the hand with a knife, and thatheshot him in self-defense. The former of these statei^nts is disapproved by the fact that the knife which Hatfield had was not open, and the latter by the testimony of Mrs. Owen, who was present at the scene of the deed. There was quite a commotion among the inmates of the jail when Foster was brought in, and they were not long in finding out what was his crime. He was the hero of the day among some, but others declared they "would put a head on bim to night."

The body of the murdered man was brought to the office of Coroner Hedges yesterday afternoon. The Coroner himself is on a jury in the Criminal Court. The jury went out yesterday afternoon, and the Coroner cannot leave to attend to the case until a verdict is brought in this morning when the c^jrt meets at 9 o'clock. Thn unfortunate "rcuinstance did not prevent the issuing of nenire for a Coronet's jury, which was done yesterday. It wa' necessary, however, to adjourn until

tkis morning to await the liberation of th£ Cfroner. In the meantime the body lies at the office of E. & J. Hedges, on Maryland street/in the oondition mv which it was found. It i* horrid spectacle. The right eide^of tfce head has been blown ottir^jr away, telly portion of the nose remaining. After the inquest to morrow it will be washed, prepared for the grave, and buried without' ceremony of any kind.

The widow and her five little children are in a most needy condition, having nothing in the world. Even their scant furniture, which the murdered man was moving into the hoase when he was killed, lay in the street last evening. The woman waa weeplnghlttefly when Visited by otfr reporter yesterday, and seemed deeply afiected by her husband's death. Kind persons hare already interested themselves in her behalf, and she will fiot aider at present from lack of food or other sary articles.

Balzac's Characteristics as a Story

His Balm impartiality'"of judgment preserved Balzac from any tendency to pet his characters at the expense of his purpose. The individual was nothing in comparison to the general plan of the whole, and the consequences of an act were as remorseless as Fate. We can never imagine him, like Dickens, wandering for a whole night about the streets of Paris inconsolable for the death of little Paul, nor can we think of him, like Thackeray, on the other hand, letting his characters fade back into Fableland at the end of the story, without being very certain of their ultimate fate. He is as he describes himself in hia preface, simply thesecretary of French society who is the historian, lie never satirizes, he never sentimentalizes, he never moralizes: he simply records. Take the handwriting on the wall was not more terrible than that unflinching record. Take the story of the Baron Hulot, for example— a pleasure-loving egotist, a sort of French Turveydrop on a larger and more vicious scale, amiably selfish and governed entirely by passions. No very tragic element here, you say, and yet his simple incapacity for resistance ruins the future of his children, drags his perfect wife through indescribable degradations, and wrecks the happiness of every otie with whom he comes in contact, while he descends byslow degrees the dark and dreadful stair to wallow in the mire at its foot. He has his wishes gratified to the very last, and we are made to feel that no punishment could be so terrible as the accomplishment of his desires. The absolute fidelity of Balzac makes the moral of his books inevitable. It is vice masquerading in the garments of Virtue that' is dangerous, the passion that pretends to be principle, the weakness that professes to be strength, the cowardice that assumes the garb of courage, not the frank hideousness of evil, which can be no other than hideous. With Balzac we are always made to feel lhat the true retribution, the severest punishment^ is thegrow3 incapacity for better things, not the material, nor even the direct spiritual, consequences, of wrong-doing but the deeper degradation into which the soul surely, if slowly, sinks—the ever-widen-ing impossibility of return.—From BALZAC A3 ARTIST AND MORALIST, 6# Kate Uillard, in Ike December number of Lippincott's Magazine.

I Bamblno-pathy In Route. The Church of Araoeli affords a curious though not remarkable illustration of the extent to which in Kome the ancient and the ecclesiastical are commingled. To the faithful it would appear aB a fine instance of the method in which the Romish Church has consecrated to the service of God the fruitage of the heathen. The wine, they would tell us, is none the worse because idolatrous hands cultivate tbe.grape, if pious hands have been laid upon the cup, .To the Protest tant it appears to afford a curias emblem of the manner in which the Church of Kome is composed of Christian doctrine and heathen riets and ceremonies. We are standing on the site occupied in the days of Paul by temple of Juno Moneta. The unfinished church is largely composed of the remains of heathen temples. The great granite pillars which support the nave have been dug from the ruins of Rome. Everywhere this fact is repeated. Old walls and temples are converted into church .edifices. Ruins of the past are made quarries to serve the ecclesiastical purposes of the present. Why not? Can the dead past ever do man a better service than when it becomes a quarry out of which we gather our material of experience wherewith to construct for the future?

To the Catholic, however, the fact that he stands in the midst of the reconstructed ruins of classic Rome is nothing. The grand fact is that he is under the roof ,which covers the sacred form of the Bambino.

The Bambino is a wooden figure made to represent the infant Jesus. "VVe are assured lhat it was made from a tree of the Mount of Olives, and carved by St. Luke, I hope he was a better physician than artist for the figure itself is artistically not widely different from such as stand in inviting attitudes at the entrances of our cigar shops—perhaps a trifle more delicate in slyle. It has a side chapel all to itself. It is carefully preserved in a casket of wood. Its dress is of the finest fabrics, trimmed with lace, and it is literally covered with jewels, which are stuck all over it, as though it were a pin-cush-ion. For the Bambino, perhaps from its medical carver, has inherited a wondertul power. Better far in the eyes of the faithful than hydropathy, homeopathy, or allopathy is Bambino-pathy. In times of dire distress it is taken from its chapel, carried to the sick-bed, placed at the foot, and made the recipient of prayers for succor and deliverance. And RUCII prayers are always heard The jewels which cover its gaudy pe. -i are a part of the fees which it has uoeived for these services. But they are only a part. The Bambino practice is wonderfully profitable to the priests—so profitable that there are several imitations in other cities. But the original and genuine Bambino, the gift of the medical apostle, is to be seen only in the Church of Araceli, on the Capitoline Hill, at Rome.—From "The Eternal City." by LYMAN ABBOTT, in Harper's Magazine for December.

The Confessional.

Erom the Cleveland, HcraUl.] .. ...

The story goes that the Rev. Mr. Ewer, the priest of Christ Church (Episcopal) New York, has been forced to resign, a great excitement being created by his establishment of a confessional to which eight women of his chuich had come. One of these was a wife of a vestryman and she being a handsome woman, her huhband did not like the idea of her going to the Priest for purpose of confession. Rev. Mr. Ewer is one of the "high" priests in the Episcopal church, and elevates the host, and performs other religious Antics. The confessional will never do for Protestant use. It is designed only for the ignorant, and any Protestant clergyman who goes into the business will find himself in the hottest kind of water—particularly if he be a married man. "TV, ..iTtl'V-i

CONFESSION is good for the soul. A Democratic editor in Missouri says that he accidentally dropped into a church the other Sunday, and ever Bince he has been making a Republican paper.

CHICAGO.

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DELEGATES ELECTED.

CHICAGO, November 28.—The Board of Trade last evening elected the following gentlemen delegates to the National Board of Trade, which meets in Cincinnation the 6th proximo: C. E. Culver, J. S. Rumsey, A. N. Wright, Murray Nelson and Warren Norton.

A HOUT THE GREAT FIRE.

During the investigation to day of the origin of the fire, John Dollam, keeper of the lake crib, which is two miles from the shore, testified that from 11 o'clock on Sunday night to 4 or 5 o'clock on Monday morning, a perfect shower of immense shingles, all ablaze, passed over or fell upon that structure. A tremendous sea was running at the lime, sweeping the brands off of the roof. But for this the structure would have been destroyed, and the keeper aod hi* wife would have perished. Another witness stated that the court house roof, (old part,) was tarcovered, and this, added to the fsct that the cornices were atl of wood, rendered it an easy matter for the building to ignite. Up to this date the

CHICAGO RELIEF A-ID SOCIETY Has received two millions five hundred and eight ihousand dollars in cash forihe benefit of-the sufferers by the great lireThe contributions came from forty Slates and Territories.

TP .ItlTTOl'SEABS.

Frdm ihe

LEG,—I hope tUat yoa bate

wall^i 4 xri-ttdeil idthisftitfetrbaotumn wealth

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your eyes ii) Ant and •r th'

mind there Media to be flo season of ii.v ic-.ir in which the hotnafl frame is in ane!) equable play. Coleridge speaks of the sadness of the spring and of the autumn, and thinks the last to be the deeper. But I find myself musing, as I stroll through the Ramble in the Park, that to a man of experience the melancholy of a hope that can not be fulfilled ist not less than that of apparent decay. 1 Yet I will not suffer myself to follow t^ieridg^ina^^m tempted it have often suffered—for it ia of a very different auiyect-that I wish to speak to you. It is, indeed, true that I was thinking of that remark of Coleridgfe the other day as I sat running myself In a pleasant path, and Claudio joined me and told me the morning's news. 1 don't know why we spoke of Sibakspeare, but we did, although it was otily eleven o'clock in the day and in a pleasure park of the great city. The circumstances were as incongruous as reading

Homer in Saint Rainbow's. My Companion said that of all the conceits in the great poet nbthiftg seemed to him more purely ludicrous than the caressing love of Titania for Bottom with the ass's ears and he smiled as if fresher amused by the comic thought. But it seems to be the most natural thing in the world. Shak#peare held up the mirror, and what is so common and so obvious as those ears upon Bottom? Claudio looked at me askance, but, as I saw somebody approaching, I remarked that we could now test the point, for, unless I was greatly mistaken, I saw Bottom coming with Titania upon his arm. Apparentlythere were only a gentleman and lady saunter ing along the path, but I had recognized Piccolo and his bride—a simple, amiable, pleasant pair, over whom the nuptial benediction had very recently been spoken.

We watched fliem as they approached. It was not, indeed, a wood near Athens in which we were and it was not a midsummer's night, but an autumn morning Yet no Greek pair in fact or fable were •ver sincarer lovers, or saw more beauty in the world, or felt more joy in life aud ui each other. We all love lovers, as we do children, with a good natured fondness and it is became love itself is immortal youth, and they who love never really grow old. What honest simplicity they

show! and it is not ridiculous, |Mpngh we smile. Indeed, one of my pleasures in this great town is sometimes to breakfast at the newest and finest hotel, whither the young votaries of Hymen from out of tf wn always hie, and observe the pretty ways of the bright-plumaged bridal flock. Life has no such pure holiday. The air of importance iu ihe youth, born of the sudden sense of ins protecting relation ami Ihe lespunoibility which he has undertaken, is curiously mingled with the quite other i-ense of e*ce-ively new clotl«es, and a bashful feeiih,. that they are tl.igrantly suggestive of ihe utter noveltx of his position. But

fest

this

is su

perficial', and beneath it all is the ineffably serene satisfaction of the ntwly married man. What is its secret, Leo? J, indeed, can only speculate upon it. But is not a pardonable vanity, a natural pride, not only that a woman (and such a woman!) has selected him from all than kind,'but that the fact is now made mani

to all mankind? Piccolo approached, and Titania hung upon his arm. There was all the joyful serenity and bashfulness in his mifen which I have just mentioned, and there was the newness of attire which would have aroused the suspicion of the dullest observer in the Park. We mutually smiled, and I rose and saluted them with all my hart. Then, when they had gone but a little way, Piccolo slipped his arm from his bride's, and hastening back to me, as if some resistle°s necesity urged him, he whispered, hurriedly, "You know we were married only *bn Wednes day," and then hurried away to rejoin Titania. Claudio looked inquiringly, but satisfied, while this little scene passed, and when Piccolo left us, he said, with a smile, "I don't know them, but I suppose I understand all but your remark about Bottom."

I explained it, and I hope not offensively to the. doves who had now fluttered, out of sight. Piccolo is a youth' who, thrown- early upon the world, has an immense

self-assertion,

a dogmatism which

is towering. Of course he is unconscious of it, as Bottom did not know that his head was crowned with the lofty' ears. His very blandness makes the conceit more ludicrous, as the placidity of Bottom's /ace made the contrast of the ear# more comical. But it is this enormous exaltation of himself which is what little Titania admires. She takes him at his own estimate. He has so impressed her with the conviction lhat he is ^a great personage, thai the house .in which he is a clerk reals Upon him us upon a cornerstone, and he is so persuaded of it himself, that it ia this*/able and distortion which she caresses, *and embraces this huge defect as if fl were the cardinal beauty of her Piccolo. To fondle faults as charms and graces—is not that to stroke the fair large ears of Bottom

But how amusing is the serenity of our unconsciousness in wearing that ornament? In Hawthorne's "Marble Faun" do you remember how exquisitely and delicately it is suggested, hinted—or find some airier woid to say it—that if the wind should lift the curls of Donatello, the pointed ears of the faun ffould be revealed, showing the lower nature, the brute not all eliminated from the man? Bottom is Donatello, not with the lower mark wavering shadowy and doubtful in the dark, but towering with complacent triumph above his bead not eluding the suspicion that here may be a defect, but triumphantly declaring that a huge defect is here. Indeed, I am often appalled upon pleasant Sunday mornings to see how many Bottoms come to Saint Rainbow's. I watch them enter at the door, and taking off their hats, they display the most astounding ears. Their 1 itanias somehow do not seem to be mindful of the exhibition, and they are certainly not troubled by it. We are all so accustomed to it that we observe nothing unusual.

But the worst of ft is to perceive suddenly that the ears are even in the pulpit nor at Saint Rainbow's of coursethey are never seen in our pulpit—but in the other churches. I have often sat in a church on a bright June dar, "the bridal of the earth and sky," and ss I listened to the doctrines that werepreached—the narrow, inhuman dogmatisip, as it seemed to me, but probably not to others—arid reflected upon the joyless, chilly, cruel world which they implied— for I did not like to carry the logic further, to the world's Creator—I have gazed at the earnest speaker who was spinning the unsightly^ web from his head, surely not from his heart, until I saw distinctly the great ears of Bottom pricking and pointing from his hair and he, as I »ay, all

upon the

while ihe

unconcious

congregation, a rapt Titania, hung npen with tender solicitude, and, in acceptthat strange doctrine for truth and jty, passionately caressed, tl.o-e for midable ears.

them

ing beauty,

Or there is Anglophob, the statesman, whom yon know well. He inakeit what called tremendous speeches, in which thumps the table, and frowns, and lashes himself into a rhetorical frenzy, shouts that the English nation is the selfish, mercenary, and mean of all nations that, it has always been the se cret foe of liberty, and hates lis, whose /athers humiliated her, with an undying haired. "And I, Sir," roars this great statesman—"I, Sir, for one, wish it to go

and most

record of 1 he legislation of my

country that 1 spurn England and despise John Bull that I will track that hoary liar to his lair, although he may seek to place it beyond tho sunset—ay, Sir, beyond the Rocky

Mountains

is lie, hugs

that I defiantly and

contemptuously hold open the mouth of the British lion and expectorate into it freely and that, please God, in the name my country, I will continne to expectoin lhat direction so long a« life and expectorative power are granted me." is Bottom as the statesman. The lhat distinguishes him is the length the ears above his head. Blissfully

the fri of rate the' This thing of unconscious, he does not suspect that he ass and his public, for he has a puban

Wj S with the blessed blindness of Titania, those ears as hisgreatest glory. is it, Leo, with you young fellows pens are so nimble, and who write endlesss poems and essays, and publish it every year? I opened one of the ones the other day, and it seemed to to aim at what is called sensation, and the sheerest artifice. Every thing in book was, to my taste, artificial. But it is to the taste of the time, the by fellow who made the book studies to giatify that taste, and honestly pposes his facility in doing it to be talent, and probably genius. It is all a huge defect, of which he is totally nnconscous, and with which,the public is in

How

whose endlest books' new me by the 88 worthy only su

love I see the dainty young maidens holding the volume aod reading with admiration, add secretly writing perfuitied notes to beg as autograph and ondb nrora sw how fast is the wood neir Atheftt, a&4 again I heboid the fairy queen$hapia catessie^ tbe ears of Bottoon. _$! tffwhm yM kdotr, UH* proyement of a seruoti is at the end. I always nsed to awake when it began because I knew that "the brunt of the fight" was over. It was the application of the truth of the text to the congregation and to the preacher. And as 1 come to the end of my letter, 1 find my hand stealing quietly ap to feel for ray protaberanee npon my head* Indeed, as I sat with Claudio, my thoughts searched me in the same way. If there be any favor for us, dear boy, let us humbly wonder if it be a kind that mistakes those terrible ears for essential beauties. Indeed, all favor must put us on our guard. Love is blind, and Titania caresses the ass's ears. Whenever she comes and fondly praises as, while we listen let us meditate the cause, and acertain If *e aught to listen ghtdly.

Tour friend,

^,4 AN OLD BACHELOR.

Fire in Bedford.

Ditpaleh to the Cincinnati REDFORD, IND., NOV. 24. Our new graded school building burned drown this morning at 2 o'clock. Loss $27,000. The cause of the fire is nnknown. No insurance. The building was erected last summer, and was a very substantial structure. School had been going on only about two months.

.Lake Harbors.

The Chief Engineer recommends an appropriation of one hundred^ thousand dollars for the improvingof Chicago Harbor during the coming season, and seven* ty-iive thousand for the harbor refuge.at the month of Calumet river. Twenty thousand is asked to complete the improvements of Maumee Bay at Toledo. No further appropriations are asked for Sandusky, Cleveland and Ashtabula Washington Cor. Cin. Gazette. JJ

NEW YORK.

VICTOR EMANCFI-

NEW YORK, November 2S.—A special from Rome savs Victor Emanuel was received witli tremendous enthusiasm by the Italian Parliament. In his address he said the work to which he had devoted hi^ life, was completed An intimation that there was a necessity for conciliating the Vatican, was coldly received.

RLLTJMINATED.

At the conclusion of the ceremonies of opening Parliament, he was called to the balcony twice by the populace. The city was grandly illuminated in the evening.

THE POPE

Was consoled by priests. A telegram from Havana statu that OREAT EXCITEMENT

Exists there. The court martial* was trying forty-seten students for outraging a patriot's grave, and it is rumored il\at eight have been found guilty, and were to be shot on Monday evening. Business is suspended. There was a captain of vol unteers killed yesterday by two negroes, who were immediately shot.

INTELLIGENCE FROM MEXICO

States that Gov. Tamaquilo wants $20,000 for war expenses and to. organize the National Guard. The people oppose the loan. 40,000 government troops are nearing Saltillo to raise the siege". Cortina had appropriated the pay of government troops at Camargo to himself, causing a revolt and disbanding of troops.

CUAS. O'CONNOR

stated yesterdaj^'fo a reporterjfhat he supposed there would' be no difficulty in convicting Connolly.:

SAM'L. J. TILDJEN,

was pro-

upon, whose affidavits Tweed ceededj whether the 10th National or Nassau Banks in which Tweed had largely deposited, and ihat he does not know whether any of the 42 per cent, of stolen funds, the division of which is Unaccounted for, has been traced to Connolly. He also says there was no bargain with the Commitee of Seventy to spare Connolly in consideration of his appointment of Green.

against, states that he is ignorant er uohnolly had any accotl'nts with

n.i

1 r.

THE DIFFICULTY

which Connolly experiences in finding bail is due to the Sheriff rejecting many of the persons who have been offered. His friends say the Sheriff has been unnecessarily severe in refusing men who were fully able to respond as surities.

DISPLEASED.

Afessrs. Havemeyer & Tilden say that the Committee of Seventy is not at all pleased with Connolly's arrest. It is also stated that the arrest was made with the hope, that Connolly would divulge what he knew.

HELD TO BAIL.

Christopher Bany, John Reilly, Wm. J. O'Connor and James ReUky. inspectors of election, were held in §2,000 each yesterday for trial, on the charge of stuffing ballot boxes.

It is stated that Jackson F. Schultz,Chas. O'Connor and Samuel J. Tilden have been before

THE ORAND JUMY

to testify in relative to ring frauds That hnHv is now snid to be investigating the Ilarleru Court House swindle.

At Hunters Point, L. I., yesterday, fortyi RIN CATHOLIC CHILDREN 1 were expelled from the public school by direction of the Commissioners, because they objected to the reading of the Bible.

for infringement of rules. REFORM DEMOCRATS. At

meeting in Appolo Hall of ib6

Reform Democrats last night, it was agreed to proceed with the organization: of the party in the various wards throughout the city.

DOUBLE TCNNELS. »!,*

question of iapid tran-it, the speakers recommended double lunnela which, would be. kept ventilated by ihe passage of tVains.

ac"t

A BREAK VI'.

The meeting to organize an Inventors^ Union last night, resulted in aJgenerar break up

STILL A PKIBONEK.

Connolly is still a prisoner at the New York Hotel. It is said he has obtained enough bail.-

RUMORS

were current to day that Meiyor Hall bad resigned. THE INVESTICJATION.

The Grand Jury appeared before Judge Bedford this morning and stated that they, were unable to finish the investigation of charges of fraud against city officials, because their term of service was drawing to a close. The Judge took the matter under advisement. .vil v»#i

MOTION DENIED.

Judge Bedford has denied the motion to qupah indictment against Hagerty and Baulch, charged with stealing vouchers from the Controller's ofllfee, also

REFUSED

to admit them to bail. INVESTIGATION!'*''*^'^ into the Harlam Court Hoiise'expense*, show that a quarter of a million dollars have been expended for what could done for $10,000 and the two hundred thousand dollars have been stolen. The evidence:-. *.

IMPLICATES

ihe frauds. It is stated

Harry Genet in that a

DEFICIT

of between $200,000 and $300,000 has been discovered in the accounts of the Bowling Green Savings Bank, but it will be made good by the ring officials.

COWNOLLT.

It is understood that-if Connolly's bail is not completed by Wednesday night, he will spend Thanksgiving in Ludlow street jail.

DECLINES.

Judge Brady has declined to quash Judge Barnard's mandamus for country aldermanic returns. It is understood that the present aldermen will carry the case to the Court of Appeals, and in the meantime they propose to

HOLD OVEB.

A lively time is expected at the organization of the Board in January. THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS have decided to break up lottery policy and swindling shops. ,,

THE BODY

found in North river on Friday, is recognized as that of Madame Rhodes,a wealthy lady of New Orleans.

SHOT."*"*

Alderman Stewart, of Brooklyn, was shot last night, and is reported at the point of death.

KELLY,

who shot him, has been arrested. SMALL POX. Thirteen new small fr* eases Monday noon.

smeff.

REMOVED.

Controller Green removed tea tfaaoamis he to a GRAND DUKE.

This afternoon, the Grand Duke, ac--compamed by his suite, reviewed the fire brigade at Tompkin's Square. The Duke has accepted an invitation from Commodore Bennet to dine with the New York Yacht Club on Saturday evening. The Ducal party will visit Montreal on the 12th of I^cember, and Ottawa on the 13th, where the Duke will pay bis respects to the Governor General. From thence he will proceed to Niagara Falls.

MORE RELIEF.

The Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce committee for relief of sufferers at Chicago and in the Northwest reports additional subscriptions from the 20th to the 2oth inst., amcmtiting to $2,162— making a '*'R WRAND TOTAL. Of all collected by the committee of fWS.4-3. J! DIED.

Joseph ff. Cogswell, for many yearB librarian of the Astor Childs' Library, died on Sunday last.

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CHILTTREN'9 AIP

At a meeting of the Children's Aid Society last evening, it was reported that the organization had provided 7,10S boys with homes wiihin a few years. Some three thousand persons had been provided with homes in the West, and the Association is now suffering from w»it of funds.

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A GRAND REVOLT

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Is expected against the government on the 1st of December. A LI.TTKR FROM LONDON. States that aUhe meeting of the AngloAmerican Association, on November 13th, at which a scheme for presenting the nucleus of a free library to Chicago, was adopted, communications approving the plan, and oflering assistance in its execution were received from D'Lsraeli,Marquis of Lome, Foster, Arnold, Argyle, Carly le and others. The Association is presided over by Thomas Hughes M. P. f..

ANARCH?.

CITY OK MEXICO, November 10— vii» Havana, 28.—A stale of anarchy prevail* throughout tbe entire Republic. Tbe journals are filled with accounts of [to^ nunciamentos, and the troops are growing revolutionary. General PorGrio Diaz has formally pronounced and is backed by the Legislature of the Slate of Oaxaca, which has decreed to return to its own sovereignty. The greater part of the army is distrusted. The Oiglo of the 18th says that Juarez was CLOSETED WITH THE AMERICAN MIKISTEK On the night of the 17th, who advised the President to change his cabin^^The report caused a great sensation, thepeople expressing fears of American intervention. Positive assurances are giT«n of cabinet changes in the beginning of December. It is

RUMORED S

That Senor Romero will soon go to fs Washington, but whether officially or not is unknown. It is reported that Mexico will try to raise a loan in the United States. Gen. Texan

WAS ARRESTED

At Vera Cruz by order of Juarez, but ESCAPED to La Puebla, and thence he went to Oaxaca.

PALACio tut 'V!sfn

Is spoken of as Provisional Governor of Nueva Leon, where Juariets are gaining,^, strength.

CLIDEL CASTONEDA

Announced on the loth in Congress that he was authorized to state by thcLerdista party that they do not sympathize with either Diaz or the government, but will »,?' remain neutral and fight both government & and revolutionists.

OEN. NEORET

Has abandoned Diaz and gone to Sierra {jv de Zacapoaxslla. j--A MANIFESTO

Issued by Diaz meets with poor response. It is reported that brothers Diaz disagree, .• -Parfirio and his army favoring Benites as

Governor instead of Felix Diaz. 1

HAVANA.

EXECUTED.--. M"

HAVANA, NOV. 28.—Eight of the medical students tried by court martial for violating the graVe of Gen. Castanon were'sentenced to death ihis morning, and executed this afternoon. They met r'. their fate with resignation, expresf ing sorrow for committing tbe act which they $j did. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OK THE KXECUTION.

At one o'clock this afternoon the find ing or the cotirt martial, which was convened to try the medical students who despoiled the grave of Gen. Castenon, w«» announced from the balcony of acting

H¥ KILLKI).

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At a meeting held by the Ka«t Sidei AV social ion last evening, to

on*idiBi'rthe

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Capt. Gen. Crespas' palace. Eight of the students who were found guilty were fei»tenced to be shot at four o'clock tlii» ternoon. The others were sentenced to four and six years' imprisonment in thr penitentiary. All those sentenced to death were over IS years of age.

THE EXECUTION

of Uie condemned prisoners took place at the specified time. They met their death ^with resignation and expies-ed iegret at -having committed the act lor which ihey

ip1 tl/IET RE8TOHKI. ii Great excitement prevailed throughout tlie-ouy during the day and business was suspended, but at this hour, 6 p. ui all is quiet.'

C.UT. URN. VALMAZEDA, TFCSH

who was yesterday at Jinc&ro, is expected to arrive a' Havana dining the afternoon. He publishes a proclamation promising the guilty shall be punished mid

THE MEDICAL SOCIETY" th'11 'he guilty sliitil tie pi it .» T) ch.iicinir recent evenis to the IIIHCIIIIIH-

ATTKMPTKP A*»MF.«INATU.

Three negroes attempted assassinate an officer of the volunteer »•. lillery to day. They did not succeed in their design, Mhough.the officer was serinii-ly noui.ded by daggers.

The act of the negroes wa» witne.ved by numbers of persons, who attacked and killed them all. t,

FBANC& nit

ion

KXECUTFI).

PARIS, Nov. 1J8.--There was another*'' agitation in the city to-day over toe expeeled fate of Communists. Ii licences ,? were used to secure tbe pardon ot Ro^el, but they were unavailing, as a di.patch frorb Versailles announced that Kossel and two of his companion.* had been shot. •-»,(

HOW THE KILLING WAS DONE. ^|4 PARIS, NOV- "-W.—The Commune pri- „w, oners, lios^el, Ferre and Bourgeoise, were taken to the camp ofSalary, the place of if1' execution, under a slrong escort. A hoi- U4 low square was formed by lrf«,ji», »i one end ol which ihe prisoners we.e placid.

THE BEHAVIOR

of the three men was uio*t courageous. Soldiers approached to blind/old them., PER ILE KVV-' refused to allow a bandage to be pluved

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ovier his eyes, decla'ing thai he should look his executioners in the fate At o'clock the company detailed for duty

advanced and fired. ItOMKL fell at the first discharge- He was instantly killed. ThaJbuUeu did not lake immediate effect upon ihe n.tiers and a* they ttp, sr*J i-irf «'EKE W I'l rillMi, •'.J.j' the same shooting partv, in ol.ediuue to 'instructions, came up with p'fstoU aud

gave them the coup de grans to pm them out of I'jifov THEIR AOONYI

The bodies were then pljced in plain coffins and immediately removed. The S-} execution took place in the prwence of P* 3,000 troops.

A PROFOUND STATION

was produced throughout the city by the details. The death of young Rowel is .... much lamented. .-•.»•-T"

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SICKLES MARRIED. IF

MADRID, November 28.— Gen. Siikle* was married to Mi«s Creach io day, ai.d started for New York immediately. 1 he .?=• ol^ect of his visit is a mystery at pre-ent.