Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 January 1872 — Page 2

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"Wednesday Morning, Jan, 24, 1872.

EVANSVILLE has a promising religious revival:

FIVE murder cases grace the docket in Gibson county.

THE St. Louis "Democrat" anpports BLAINE for Vice President.

"ROBESON and Dame AULICK joined in holy wedlock yesterday.

THE Congressional Committee on the New Orleans imbroglio will leave "Washington to-morrow.

FRED. DOUGLASS' lecture, at the Opera House, will be worth hearing, for FRED* neyer talks nonsense.

WILL "the curs and monkeys of the party menagerie" join the "Sentinel" in thfc attack on Mr. HANNA?.

THE War Department has decided to strengthen Fort Pulaski, below Savannah, and the forte inCharlesLonharbor, —1_

IT IS proposed to run Rev. ROBERT COLLYER for Congress in Chicago next fall, in [il^elqlMr. C. B. FARWELL.

Now that Lafayette has a Board of Trade, andLfrTOLE as-joined theohurch, the Star City sets its radiant face towards a br^aijlsfjiture,

TiiERBis no jar between Hendricks and Voorhees.—Exchange. We didn't snppose it was a "jar," but a nicer-jtig'of •goud-old Botirbon.-r-

UNLESS, passion yields to "ifie disciplineof principle" the seeds of discontent will soon germinate in a very pretty quarrel in the bosom of the Democracy

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THE Rev.-JAMES A RS EE ,a' ve er able and respected Mbth0fiftt iflinister, and Rev. J, B. Ijfcw, for fifty years a minister in the Christian Ghurch, both died in In diarlapolis on Sunday.

THE pelt of'old Pap ^.LVOIID, detached from his.venerable form by the artia tic hand of E, C. HIBDEN, is on exhibition' in the columns of a number of our exchanges

THE new Governor's mansion at Jefferson City Missouri, btillt and furnished at a cost of about $75,000, is completed, and the Governor will give a grand house warming to-night.

WHAT has become of DA KIEL'S pre liminary convention that was going to make everything lovely Has our statesman's home organ heard of that "popular movement" recently? 5 .(» ii

You may lather and whitewash DICK BRiarnyas you will, but the odor of black ca^ will stick to him still and the party that's "organed" by cat-skinning DICK will find out, when too late, that it's CataJIy sick. jjs'y

REPRESENTATIVE WILSON,of this'State, has introduced a bill in the House, regarding the Beaver Lake lands, which differs from TYNER'S chiefly in giving the recovered lands to the State instead of the government.

PROMINENT and well informed Democrats, of this city, inform us that the "Sentinel" is manufacturing Terre Haute correspondence derogatory to the character of various gentlemen of this and other localities.

lvEPUBirCAN county conventions were held in Madison and Randolph counties on Saturday. The former instructed for JAMBS A. WILDMAN, of Howard, for Auditor, and the latter for Gen. TOM BROWNE for Governor. J«!'«:?»,

A HEW Methodist Church, called the California street M. E. Church, was dedicated at Indianapolis, on Sunday, by Eev. B. F. RAWLrNOS.1" This is the congregation that formerly worshipped at Strange Chapel, which was burned over a year «1K°-

THE new Tariff bill, it is estimated, will rednce the revenue from imports about $23,00.0,000. The duty on tea, coffee, iand all substitutes for the latter (chicory, &c.) is, reduced to ten cents a pound. The free list is largely increased. Pig iron is left unchanged. 5r

ATIOIUSEV GENERAL IIANNA declines to yield to the pressure and will persist in his suit against BRIGHT. As the case against the Catskiflner General-in-Chief is a yesy plain one, the Attorney ought to be successful. A victory in this would be sdine compensation for other defeats.

Titi: Iudittnapolis "Evening Journal" remarks that the "Sentinel," having tried to coax the Attorney General out of his apple tree by tufts of grass, ie now heaving dornicks at a lively rate. It remains to bo seen whether the Attorney General will come down or not.

RUMOR says DANIEL entreated BAYLESS not to persist in prosecuting RICHARD. Bat BAYLESS declined to yield to the mild and gentle "discipline of principle," never having been "baptized in the blood of an unconquerable devotion whereupon "the old watchwords (cuss words) were passed along the lines."

AN Indiana girl, who had been jilted, bit off the thumb of her faithless lover. She probably wanted to secure as much of lus hand as possible.—Boston Fori.

It is more likely that she had been reading the 'possum Democratic organs and was preparing to set upas a "thumbsucker."

As ILLUSTRATIVE of the folly of selecting men who "don't read the papers" for jurors, the Indianapolis "News" relates that, in one noted trial for murder, a few year's ago, one of the jurors, a resident of White river bottom, ten or twelve miles below the city, testified that he had not been to the city for thirty years, and did not know who had been President since' ANHBEW JACKSON^ I

TH£ Evansville "Journal" notices that the Democratic papers in that city find fault with Governor BAKER because he came into the city on Friday night, and modestly walked to the residence of his brother, the Mayori carrying his satdhel himself. The same papers are continually finding fault with President GRANT, because they think he "puts on style" at Long Branch.

THE "Times and Chronicle" boasts that Ohio has led the way Sn the jury reform, as she does in many others. It is proposed to jmake it possible for a man to be able to read and sit on a jury at the same time, and iftKey do not have less murders and more justice in consequence,, some vorv wise men will be much disappointed.' New York is trying to get the some bill through her Legislature.

THE Frankfort, Kentucky, "Commonwealth" is authority for the statement "that at a wedding party near that city, recently, a band of KuKlux, hideously masked, broke into the house, and began an Indian war dance in the parlors, with the usual accompaniments of yelling, brandishing weapons, etc. A young ]adv present was so frightened, that she went into spasms, and is now a raving maniac in the Insane Asylum.

PROF. KJRK, in his admirable work on "Social Politics of Great Britain and Ireland/' says: "There are above 70,000 souls in the east end of London who must at About 25,000 of these are more or less skilled in engineer and ship-building occupations. These are not shepherds, nor are they plowmen, nor will they ever be to any great extent either the one or the other. They are mechanics, and they will be *0, go where they may. In the vast hives of industry in Lancashire there area great number who must emigrate or die." Some of these, he says, are able to get off "to Massachusetts to find full occupation in cotton."

SOMEBODY who dates his letter at Terre Haute, writes to the "Sentinel," urging the Attorney-General to bring suits against many prominent gentlemen residing in various parts of the State but the miserable luck that has attended Mr. HANNA'S black Cat campaign thus far has given him_rro§tomach for fresh assaults. When w'i "The.K(ng of France, with forty thousand men. Marched up tho hill-and then marched down again," he set the illustrious example which has been copied by tLe Attorney General in these latter days. So great a cry has seldom been followed by so insignificant a show of wool. :J.0J

"OUR Monthly Gossip" in "Lfppuicott's,"'for February, thinks that, after all, it is -lucky that the manuscripts of SH AKSPEABE'S plays have been preserved. SSAKSFEARE, like a large number of oilier good fellows, was a wretched penman, as _is seen by^a few scraps of his writing in existence, and "Our Monthly Gossip" holds that if his /Manuscripts had been saved "they would have furnished material for a host of commentators, and interpreters even greater and more annoying than those we have been pestered with." This is a novel .view of tbe case, and will perhaps' Slati-fv, in part, !ho^e who have deeply regretted that V.ehave loit the precious papers. s'lrr,?.

TIIE tone of foreign-journals indicates that the "Internationals", of Europe have become formidable enough to seriously alarm nearly all'of. the governments of the Old World. There seems to have been formed a grand coalition of the ruling powers to put down this mysterious organization. Among the members of this league, are England, Austria, Italy, Spain and France, it seems, is anxious to be admitted, having sent to Madrid a diplomatist for the special purpose of securing an affiliation with,this powerful combination of sovereignties, called into active existence by an association of enthusiasts whose wildest threats would have been met with nothing more than smiles of derision before Sedan rendered the Cemmune of Paris a possibility.

THE Indianapolis "Journal" says it "will await with considerable interest the result of BRIGHT'S attack upon the Attorney General. The Democratic papers must take sides w|th one pr the other, and it is quite certain that if the hands of Mr. HANNA are not held up by the faithful, his enemies will prevail against him." The same paper also remarks that, "while Attorney General HANNA has made himself somewhat conspicuous in the cases against EVANS, MCCARTY and KIMBALL, he has abstained from any active participation in the suit against BRIGHT, the management of that case being left entirely to his associate counsel, Messrs. CLAYrooL, HARRISON, TAYLOR and WILSON. Is not that sufficient for the 'Sentinel?' Or is it determined to threaten Mr. IIANNA until he shall assume the responsibility of controlling the case, and dismissing it? We shall soon see who controls Mr. HANNA, the honest men or the rascals of his party."

WE HEARTILY endorse the declaration of the Philadelphia "Press" that Civil Service Reform is not a delusion and snare, and the keenest ridicule and most beautiful rhetoric yet broached in Congress will not convince the people of the country that it is. It will correct several very generally admitted evils, and tend not only to promote faithful service, but to secure increased efficiency. We are just beginning to find out whose interests are hurt by the adoption of the new rules drafted by Mr. CURTIS and his colleagues. They are not those of the Executive—he has not complained—but rather those of members of Congress. These find their political influence, i. e., the power of dis. pensing publicoffices as though they were private property, fading away, and, of cours^ they figure as protestants. But the people were never better satisfied or the reputable members of Congress more relieved.

THE Cincinnati "Commercial's" Washington correspondent reports that insurmountable obstacles have arisen regarding the course of the Government in the Utah trials, which will prevent the continuance of the prosecution without the interference of Congress. No law exists whereby the Government can be held responsible for the expenses of criminal trials in Territories, and the trials in Utah have already reached about twenty thousand dollars for grand juries, witnesses and other expenses attendant upon an important and prolonged trial. It is expected of the Territorial Government to provide for such expenses, but in this case, the Government being in the hands of the Mormons, they are not likely to furnish money for their own trial. The Controller of the United States Treasury refuses to allow the payment of accounts already contracted, on tbe ground that he has no authority to do so. The trials, therefore, are likely to come to a speedy efld, and Cong-ess will be asked to solve the difficulty.

IT IS a noticeable fact that the men and papers that have been clamoring for tariff reform in order to relieve the people from oppressive taxation, not only deprecate anv repeal of decrease of duties, except sncli as are antagonistic to British inters ests, but are now fighting zealously against any curtailment of internal taxes, which everybody admits fall heavily upon our people. -j

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GENERAL VOH MOLTKE, according to the "North German Gazette," has not expressed his disapproval, in a "military poiBCvof *iew,-^of 'SSHKRMAH'S March to the Sea." The Philadelphia "Press" thinks there ean be no doubt that General SHERMAN afid the veterans who Berved under him will be very much relieved to find that the' Prussian officer does not disapprove, in a military point of view, of their achievements. After all, had they been so unfortunate as to meet with, his condemnation, they would have had the consolation of reflecting that soldiers, like statesmen,' will be judged by their, results. We have heard that General VON MOLTKE thinks there is nothing to be learned by the scientific military man from our civil war, because "it was nothing but the scrambling of two armed moba." Whatever may be VON MOLTKE'S military abilities, it is probablfe that he is as little able to appreciate the spirit and versatility which transformed peaceful and untrained citizens into capable soldiers in a few months, as he is to understand how a march over such a vast country as that which SHERMAN'S army traversed, could be successful "in a military point of view."

WE ARE indebted to Eastern exchanges for what little information we are able to present relative to Mr. GEORGE* R. DENNIS, who has been elected to fucceed Hon. GEORGE VICKERS as Senator from Maryland, for six years from the 4th of March, 1872. He was born in 1822, in Worcester county, Maryland, and is consequently now fifty years of age. He is descended from a family long and favorably known in the history of the State and of tbe country, peveral members of which have been representatives in Congress, one of them as early as 1798, and held many other positions of distinction. Mr. DENMIS has had considerable legislative experience. He was Stale Senator in 1856, in the Lower House in 1867, he was last, fall" again elected to the State Senate for a terui of ./bur., years. He was also one of the delegates at large for the State of Maryland at the convention which nominated SEYMOUR and BLAIP. in 18GS, in New York city, and was a vice president of that body. Originally ha was a physician of large practice, but for many years he has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, always taking an active interest in the political and financial affairs of the State. Before the war he was an old-line Whig, ar.d ever since the dissolution of that party he has been in earnest accord with the principles of the Democracy. Personally, Mr. DENNIS is exceedingly popular, his affable manner and high social qualities and liberal hospitality surrounding him with troops of friends. He wields great influence in the politics of the State. He is President of the Eastern Shore Railroad and also a director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and is as largely identified with the material interests of the State as any man in it.

SPEAKING of HENDRICKS and VOOR^ IIEES, the New Albany "Standard" says: The latter is an ardent friend of the former,' and is working with might and main to have him nominated for the Presidency. 'l

The great secret of that honest friend^ ship and that "working with might and main" lies in the fact that Mr. VOORHEES thinks his dear friend HENDRICKS blocks his way to the Senate. It is an affecting instance of disinterested devotion!

MORMONISJI.

Decline of the Prophet BrigUaiu

From the Salt Lake Tribune. January 13.] The certificate of Mr. Young's physician produced on the day of his appearance beiore Chief Justice McKean last week was an expression of weakness we bad not anticipated from the man who throughout his entire life has been noted for the possession of an indomitable will, and we believe nothing short of absolute mental depression and physical weakness could have extorted such a confession from him.

It was a fact palpable to every one who saw Mr. Young on the day of the commitment, that the cares of the "Kingdom" and the persecution of his "enemies" were weighing heavily on him. And when Dr. Anderson, whose skill is well known, expressed his unqualified belief that any harsh confinement might prove fatal in his present state of health, we regarded it as a wise measure on the part of Chief Justice McKean to instruct the Marshal to see to his every comfort and we still hope that every consideration may beextended towards him, as we are satisfied the nation will endorse a policy of leniency rather than one evincing an undue zeal to convict. The probabilities are that any harsh measures would hasten his death, and such a contingency would be construed by the Mormons into a martyrdom second only to that of Joseph Smith.

We would have Mr. Young live to see the consequences of having spent a misdirected life, by reason of hawing believed and practiced more than was consistent with the spirit of the age in which he lived at the same time we are inclined to the belief that Mr. Young in later years has realized the folly of much of his early administration, but has proceeded too far in the direction of Stole founding on (he Mosaic })lan to retreat without bringing obloquy on his name in the fn»

Ambition has been Mr. Young's guiding star f6r years not ambition in the ordinary sense of the word, but the ambition to be a representative of God of the Moses type, ruling in that capacity a kingdom o'f hia own building, and of which he*fcould be at once Priest and King.

There are certain traits of character in Mr. Young the extraordinary blending of which have made him remarkable in many respects, and the lack of a proper understanding of his peculiarities has created an opinion abroad, the result ol which is that he is overrated in some particulars and grossly misrepresented in others. The point in his character in which he has been rarely equaled is an iron will—Napoleonic, yet Richelieu-like in subtlety—coupled with an inflexibility of purpose which has controlled the "Kingdom" more than either the revelations of Joseph Smith or the fundamental doctrines of the church.

This extraordinary power of will, which is the main endowment of Mr. Young, has been exercised over the people much as the mesmerist controls his subject. His psycological control (for such it is) has been noticed by many on the occasion of their first interviews with Mr. Young, who

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SOME of "the curs and monkeys of the party menagerie" need kicking again, but the Terre Haute "Journal"*' is mild and gentle as a sucking lamb. Has it no kind word for the Attorney General in his present affliction? Does it unite with YOOKIIEES in the effort to stop the suit against the Cat Skinner General-in-

afterwards remarked that he

looked as though he was reading them through and through. It has been alleged against Mr. loung that as he was a polygamist he was necessarilv a sensualist. This we deny. Brigham Young's passions have ever beerr religious convictions. No stronger refutation to the charge of lasciviousness can be offered than the Prophet's physical strength, up to a recent period, and the comely appearance of his children.

The truth is, that with these extraordinary characteristics implanted in him

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IT was considerate in the Governor to

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Alexis an advance copy of his reception speech, as our dispatches inform ns he did. We hope he also sent him a copv of Webster's Unabridged, Crabbe's Svnonvmes, Rqjei's Thesaurus, and Richard Grant White's Words and Their Uses. Without these aids, he might as well have sent him a Chinese puxxle, or a Choctaw livmn-book. Alexis is a nice vonng man, and if the Governor had fired off his speech at him unexpectedly and unexpoundedly, it might have hurt his feelings, insulted his snite. and played smash with the entente cordiale between America and Russia. But now that he knows what's coming, he can be resigned to his fele, and although neither he nor anybody else will be likely to know what Oratz is driving at, he mav rest assured that no offense is intended.—St. Louis Democrat.

birth, together with an early religious experience and training, it^ is not surprising that with his opportunities for greatness, he has not won for himself a greater name, greater in the sense that he might have been loved more and feared less than he now is.

Such is our reading of the man who is the creator and chief of theocracy in Utah —a theocracy which, finds no parallel since the days of Moses. Brigbam Young's.fundamental mistake has been in trying to make conditions of society existing 4,000 years ago applicable to the wants and government of people in this age of the world.

For the evils growing out of theocracy the Prophet must be held responsible to a very great extent, while at the same time it must be remembered that the people themselves have, by their abject submission, largely assisted to build up that priestly power which is doomed to pass awar with Brfgbam Young.

THE BEAR AND THE BISON.

Another aiid More Reliable Account Of theGmlDak^i Buffalo Hunt.

From t%e Cleveland Leader.} ON 1H£ PLAISS, January lS, iS72. Bnt a few houni after forwarding you my previous letter, dated at North Platte, the entire caravan of royal and military buffalo hunters struck tents, and started toward the south, where it was reported by ihe8COUts that eountless herds of game ftere feeding. The Grand t)uke did not user his carriage on the m»rcht as lie wished to keep the wheels fresh for the hunt, but rode a small sized army mule, which displayed his'manly form to an advantage, and also brought into action those noble qualities of mind that are developed so finely in a long-limbed man who attempts to ride a short-limbed mnle.

The Duke's knees, when his feet were in tbe stirrups, were about eight inches higher than his head, which gave him the appearance of sitting down on his shottlders,, preparatory to commencing a series of Japanese tub tricks. He would occasionally take his feet out of the stir. rups, and rest them on the ground, or run along with his mule under him, looking like a Central Park coach dog between the legs of a thoroughbred. Fortunately the Duke's animal did not indulge in that eccentricity of asinine character known as "bucking," otherwise serious consequences might have ensued.

THE RED MAN APPEARS.

It had been arranged by Sheridan that Tiger Tail, Grizzly Bull, and Helletyscott (the man who walks off on his ear), with the warriors in their respective comtriands, should meet the Ducal party on the first day's march, and show Alexis how they "whooped it up" on the plains, and made it lively for wagon trains, soldiers and miners. These big children were to charge down upon the hunting cortege, making a sham attack, and if possible, frighten the Duke a little. The Indians had been especially prepared for the occasion Sheridan had previously shipped several barrels of mineral paint, and also'sent a dozen scenic artists from the "Black Crook" to fix up the untutored children of the forest so that they would present an iippearance that was at once devilish and impressive.

Abofit one o'clock p. M., the first day, after leaving the camp by the railroad, as the hunting train was passing through a piain covercd with sage brush, and with a few cottonwood trees in the distance— the Indians appeared.

Alexis at this moment was reclining in his vehicle, with several guns by his side,and was evidently thinking of the excitement of the hunt, of his home by the Neva, his little Muscovy duck at St. Petersburgh-, and whet"her she would think he had grown any since he had left Russia. Suddenly there came a sound from all sides, a piercing yell and prolonged whoop that raised his hair, short as it was, with such violence as to send hid cap through the top of the carriage, leaving a hole big enough to hand several fares through when postage stamps werecnrrency. Upon looking out of the window, a THOUSAND PAINTED DEVILS ON HORSE

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were seen charging down on the party, who were evidently too surprised to make any resistance. The good advicc of the Chicago ladies who had begged of him not to go upon the plains flashed through Alexis' mind, but it was too late now, and he resolved to sell his life dearly if he must. Count KnockemoS had heard the yells of the savages, saw them coming —each warrior armed with guns and bows and arrows or spears, but had the presenceof mind to think Of his "boomerang," and mounting the seat with his driver, he hurled the largest one at the neare.-.t chief. But he had forgotton to give it the right twist, and in an instant back came the missile, knocking out the brains of the mule driver who sat by his «i !e. The Count did not twirl the other boomerang, but retired to his carriage for concealment.

The Duke seized one of his spray spreading nozzle shot guns that contained two quarts of buck shot, and singling out the form of "Tiger Tail." poured the entire charge into the warrier's stomach. Sheridan, who had not anticipated any such maneuver on the part of his royal guest, rode hurriedly up to the Duke's carriage, and informed him "the Indians were friendly," and if it would not make any essential difference to his Imperial Tallne?s, hoped he would not kill any more for a lew minutes."

Alexis descended from his carriage and "regretted exceedingly that he should have spoiled Tiger Tail's fun by any such faux pas as that of making a seive of his diaphragm," and was about to donate a few thousand dollars to the widow of Tiger Tail, but at that moment the chief himself approached holding out his hand, and saying, "How! heap big man me no kill—drink much commissary— tougher'n a nut by a d—n site."

It was true the old warrior, stoic that he was, sacrificed his feeling out of respect to the Duke. He had whittled out wooden pegs and stuck them in the holes made by the buck shot, until his stomach looked "like a copper-oolored cribbage board where a score of players had not only counted one, but several for "his knob," and were peging promiscuously through the different stages of the game.

Quiet was soon restored, the mule driver, who was boomeranged, buried, and a brief halt Was made for coffee and lunch, and to Jet the Russian officers see the red men at home. The wardrobe of the latter attracted much comment from the Duke who said he had not seen such lavish display in dress since he left Chicago. •'Bull in the Ring," an Arapahoe chief, wore one leg of a pair of cavalry pants, a paper collar wrong side up and a hoop skirt. Tiger Tail sported a hat brim around his neck, a pair of soldier pants and one kid glove. The others were less fastidious in their taste? and wore business suits made from gunny sacks, or full dress of horse blankets.

The Indians announced that the buffalo were within a half an hour's march, and after an hour's halt the "forward" was sounded and the party were on the move. But a few miles had been traversed before the advance scouts reported

THE BUFFALO IN 8IGHT, jii,

and in a few minutes the plain in front was covered with a black throng of moving animals who were seen slowly feed ing toward the west, or across the path of the party in search of them. The Duke was all aglow with excitement, and wished to be driven at once into the middle of the herd, where he could slaughter a few without getting out of his carriage. Sheridan remarked to his Highness that he could never overtake them on wheels, but Alexis thought different, and to humor his whim the entire cavalcade set off at full speed after the bison. With the exception of a few soldiers and Indians none of the hunters came within range of the startled bison, who fled and kicked up silch a dust that not a man could see five rods to the front. The Duke looked out of his carriage window, and, catching a glimpse through the dust of the several mules that were hitched to his vehicle, he supposed them to be bison, and levelinr his blunderbuss out of each window alteg nately, he killed four of his team before discovering his mistake. Of course this brought him to a stop, as it did the rest, and a new plan was decided upon. Several of the fleetest horses with Indian riders, were sent out to lasso a buffalo for the Duke, as it would not do to let him return without killing something beside mules. After a three hours' chase the warriors returned, bringing with them a cow buffalo with both hind legs broke, and otherwise crippled. Sheridan informed the Duke all was in readiness for the slaughter. Without a tremble, and as cool a bearing as if going into a ban-quet-room, Alexis approached the spot where the wild beast was confined by ropes and lariats of raw hide. First be shot seven balls into the shaggy brute and then harpooned her at long range, and stepping up, finished Rer with a club. The entire party congratulated the Duke on his bravery and success, and "Talking Hog," the champion seven-up player of the"'sionx, cut off the buffalo's tail and pinned it to the rear portion of the Duke's coat, as a trophy of his prowess. Alexis seemed much pleased at this touching tribute from the savage, and promised to wear it until he arrived home. The grand object now being accomplished, Sheridan ordered a return to the railroad, whereupon arriving he sent the following

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elicited a horse laugh sven from the? mules," bul Sheridan said if I sent it, "I would be compelled to walk home." I thought I would not walk. For genuine red-hot hanting always go with a Duke. /,lTourt disgustedly frjiRoiJ.

1*. The Real Culprit

From the Golden Age. 1 Undoubtedly James Fiak was a very bad men. No worse than many another less cohspicUblis 4nd successful than him's?!/ no worse than hundreds of qieirwho break every commandment^of lhe Old Testament and the New, when pleasure or poHcjrtempts them to do so^ no wtfree than hundreds of men who have the grace to conceal what he gloried in making public: The cool-headed, selfish, malicious, sly villian, who cloaks his depravity under pious pretensions, and weans tbe livery ot respectability while he robs ahd ruins, is much worse at heart than the generous, jovial, free-living mah-of-the-world, whose conscience is-simply undeveloped and not deadened, and who has so little moral sensibility, that he feels no shame for acts that Should crimson his cheek and make him hide his face from all eyes forever.

Undoubtedly Mr. Fisk was a .very bad man. Many of his acts were unquestionably criminal. His influence was blighting* His example wis pernicious: His brilliant success threw a hallow over unprincipled courses, and made thousands of young men think that cheek is about the only quality a man needs in ibis world. He stands as a sort of apotheosis of brass, the incarna tion of dash:and dare and deviltry and the: fact that he amassed a great fortune, and made a vast parade, and seemed: to live in a hey day of enjoyment, aiid was talked about by everybody, advertises the' quality that made him successful and conspicious, and tempts others to play at the same perilious game

A very bad man, certainly. Yet before passing final sentence upon him for his guilty career it may be well to pause a moment and ask, Who made him what he was? Where did this man come from? What were his antecedents? Hedid not manufacture himself. Men do not pull themselves up by the boot-strap in this world. They usually find themselves what they are and what they remain. They come upon the st'agei with a constitution, temperaments, tastest ideas, and ambitions they-, have inherited and derived. They are educated hy- schools, companions, circumstances. They inhale influences subtler than the atmosphere, but more powerfol in their eflect upon mind and life than the air on the blood. On« half the men we meet on the streets are merely results. If they are bad, the chief blame of their badness must fall upon parents, teachers, churches, customs, the civilization which has entered into their growth, the climate which has made them what they are. And if Mr. Fisk was a bad man it is-worth the while to ask, Who made him?

It needs but a little careful thinking and inquiry to see that Mr. Fisk was one of the more conspicuous representatives of a class of men already too large in American society for its good and furthermore, that he is only a more prorai nent and pronounced product of ideas, forces, and influences at work in all our communities. The glorification of wealth and worldly success the ambition for pleasure, display, notority, office, and power the culture of shrewdness and cun ning at the expense of conscience and reverence and faith the sharpening of the wits at the cost of wisdom the feasting of the senses by the starving of taste, affection,.and the mo3t sacred instincts of human nature—all culminate in, just .the style of character that is represented by Fisk. He was the fruit of the tree we have spent fifty years in watering and nurturing into productiveness—a tree covered all over with fruit of the same pernicious sort. And before we throw stones at him for the crimes he committed and the crime he was, we should strike the axe of our reproof at the roots of the tree which bore him.

The real culprit is not this man or that man whom we have caught in some overt act of crime, but the state of society which creates criminals and sends them into the world fully armed and equipped to commit depredations upon private rights and the public order. Undoubtedly the individual wrongdoer shared in the guilt. He is more or less a party to his own degradation. He should be held more or less responsible for his deeds and on his head should fall the axe his own hand has sharpened, or the blow his own misconduct has struck. But he is not the only criminal. Back of every miserable offender we send to the penitentiary or swing from the gallows into eternity, stands the real culprit in a social condition that is false, immoral, and corrupt. And instead of relieving our conscience by joining in the popular chorus of condemnation of a conspicuous offender, we should aim at the reforma tion of the real culprit. Make American society what it ought to be furnish, it with good homes, wholesome schools, innocent and edifying amusements, a religion that is reasonable ahd which teaches the obligation and worth of a good life in this world give it a true idea of success and manliness fill it with influences that are moral and elevating bring the sunshine of a great faith to bear directly upon the hearts and minds of all its members, obliterating the foolish, artificial distinctions of wealth and class, and making all alike citizens of God Almighty's commonwealth of souls, and we shall have no villains to suffer from and no criminals to punish.

"Legends of the Yellowstone. Even in ihe middle of summer the snow is so deep in these mountains that successive government exploring parties were baffled in the attempts to enter them, and all private expeditions have been driven off by the Indians. It is said that the Crows fear, as the vales are so green, that if the -«hite man once knows of their beauty their hunting grounds will be ruined. Tlie»e vales are the resort of numberless herd= of buffalo and wild game, and here the trappers tell us, is the "mother region" of the gold, where the Indian^ told Father de Smet it was found on the .-i:rface. Here are burning plains, so testiiles Bridger, at the head of the Yellows:.ne, and large lakes, and boiling springs Hke the geysers of Iceland. Here he saw his Two Ocean River, which, after flowing for some distance, separates into two large streams—one^ traveling to the Atlantic, the other to the Pacific. In one of these vales is a large tract of sage-brush, every leaf and branch perfect, and here and there are rabbits, sage-hens, and even Indians, all turned to solid stone. Ill fares it with whomsoever penetrates these mysteries, for the genii of the place at once add him to the group of statuary. More wonderful still—and our trapper told it with great awe—these bushes bear rare fruit—thousands of rubies, sapphires, diamonds, emeralds, large as walnuts. "I tell you, sir," said one veracious narrator to Captain Reynolds, "it is true, for I gathered a quart myself, and sent them down the country. A party of whites were once hotly pursued by Indians, and could only travel by night, when they were aided by the brilliant light shot from a huge diamond in a neighboring mountain, by which they traveled on for three consecutive nights. Here once an old trapper was lost on his road from Fort Laramie to Taos, and wandered for many days and in drinking from a stream found pieces of yellow metal large as hazel-nuts, which he carried to Taos and found to be gold. He spent many years seeking the place again, but in vain. Ihese and many Qther legends and traditions of these regions the trapper gave us as truth" familiar in the mountains as house hold words, which it would be imhious to doubt.— From A GOLD HUNT ON the YELLOWSTONE, IN the February number oj Lippincolt's Hagazine, *.

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Dnke Alexis killed his

first buffalo to day, in a manner which elicited the admiration of the entire ™rty P. H. SHERIDAN, Lient. Gen."

I had prepared a "special" for the "Leader," stating that, "with the heln of

ten

others, the Grand Duke managed to deprive a sick buffalo of what little life it possessed to-dav, in a manner that

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Fooling with Firearms. On Wednesday night last one of the saddest accidents that we have been called opon to record occurred in Amherst countv, about, lour miles from this city. A young man, named Anderson, lesiding in the neighborhood of New Hope church, came to this city on Wednesday, and purchased a pistol. He returned home at ni»ht and was exhibiting his purchase to his wife, when the weapon was accidently discharged, the ball striking the wife full in the breast, in the region of the heart, and inflicting, it is believed a fatal wound. The ladv was not dead at noon on yesterday, but her recovery was deemed almost hopeless. The parties had been married only about three weeks, and the agonized feelings of the husband, as he saw his young wife weltering in her gore, shed by his own hand, may be imagined, but no pen is competent to the task of describing them.— Lynchburg Xeu*. xv*.

"THE war, that for a space' did fail, now, trebly thundering, swells "the gale.'' Bold REUBEN lifts his. vengefnl flail, and letfe it fall oil DICK BafGHT's head, thus:

Pick Bright still has the brasen efl'rontfcry to a&ert that the "Sentinel",is the "organ" of the DetoocrAtlC party in In* diana. Richard also takes great credit to himself for "doing all in nis power to make Indiana Democratic in 1870," and thinks that in consideration of his eminent services to the party the Attorney General ought not to prosecute him for stealing the public fupds.

We deny that t^e "Sentinel" is any more the organ of the party than any other Democratic paper in the State. And what credit is Bright entitled to for "doing what he could to make Indiana Democratic," when every other Democratic editor in the 8tate did tbe same thing, and that, too, without the slightest hope or expectation of pecuniary reward? It strikes us that Bright has already been pretty well paid for his distinguished services. He must stand his trial, just like any other criminal.— Vtneennes Sun, 23d.

£F.Richard Jesse Bright wants to make an issue with the Attorney General in this matter, let him go ahead. The Democracy, by their State Central Committee, have a'ready endorsed Mr. Hanna's course in bringing'suits to recover public monies stolen by Bright and others^ and will give him the further endorsement of an unanimous renomination.— VincenncsSun, Zid.o -i

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Few Thoughts on Committing Suicide. From the H. Y. Evening Pert.]

The favorite plea of insanity, advanced now a-days with unfailing regularity in behalf of those who commit murder, may certainly be "granted to him who kills himseif. The desirability of life under even the most distressing circumstances —such, far instance, as toothache, a stupid evening party, amateur music, or a visit from a poor relation inclined to bor-row-money—is so generally acknowledged that-he who parts with the precious boon may be fairly set down as insane. Yet every day the newspapers report instances of individuals recklessly taking their own lives. In some cases, as notably in that of the recent self-murder of a bank clerk into whose brain bony spikes were protruding from the skull, the desire to escape from insupportable physical sufl'ering greatly palliates the crime. Quite as melancholy are the frequent instances of suicide induced by lack of means. Too often the police reports tell of dead men found in cold garrets, with a bottle of poieon or an empty pistol by his side, and a poorly scrawlednote on the table, stating in a few imperfect words that the unhappy writer was without friends or work, and in despair had determined to kill himself.

One of the strangest of suicides was that committed in this city a few months ago by a youth who left as his only reason lor the act, a statement that he was desirous of learing what was "beyond the veil—that is, the conditions of the future life—and could wait no longer His disease —for mental disease it was—proved infectious, and in a few weeks his most intimate friend, a young man somewhat older than himself, loliowed his melancholy example.

A very singular case of a suicide took place in this city only two or three days ago. A confidential clerk, occupying his employer's house up-town during the absence of the latter, shut himself up in the bathroom, lay down, partially undressed, in the bath-tub, turned on the water and then shot himself. The servants in the house, alarmed at his continued stay in the bathroom, called the police, who broke open the door, only to find the unfortunateman quite dead. No reason was given for the fatal act, as the suicide was in the enjoyment of good health and in comfortable circumstances. It is possible that an intending suicide may be in a dazed state of mind, like a sane man is when he sleeps, "perchance to dream," and his movements may be inlluenced by the actions of others, just as the dream is inlluenced by the waking thoughts. Thus, the suicide above referred to may have been reading of the murder by Charlotte Corday of Marat in his bath, and, half unconsciously, may have felt himself impelled to a similar choice of location for his bloody deed.

The pistol is now-a-days the favorite instrument of the suicide, though the rope ,has its frequent adherents. The dagger, so much in vogue in mediteval times, and still performing its work on the stage, is seldom, used by the modern suicide and, in this country, at least, suffocation by tbe fumes of charcoal is now quite unknown. The river—the dark, rolling river—has ever been looked upon as a resort for the maddened wretch driven to thedesperate purposeof ending his life. Hood gives the most graphic picture of this which exists in literature, in his well-known "Bridge of Sighs," where, in a few bold liner., he describes the fatal scene:

The blcnk wind of March Made her tremble and shivor,: But not the dark arch

Nor the dee^-rotlina river. Out of life's history Into death's mystery,

Glad to be hurled.

t, I Anywhere! anywhero! Out of the world.

I in she plunged boldly— *If: No matter how coldly Tho dark viver ran.

Over tho brink of it— Pause by it, think of it,... Dissolute man. I Lave in it, drink of it,

Then,if you can.

But the suicidal mania has another and what may be called a negative phase. Suicide is a fearful and distressing thirlg but did it ever occur to the reader's mind how distressing is the fact that many men who should commit the act—which a French law absurdly makes a penal crime —decline to do so? It is easy to mention dozens of individuals who could largely benefit the world by taking themselves out of it. The street-corner ruffian, who swears and spits and smokes and insults passing ladies the prowling burglar, who, in the dead of night, murders our sleep if not ourselves, and makes off with our portable property the drunken friend who, against all advice, persists in his debauchery and makes himself a nuisance to everybody who knows him the amateur poet, who incessantly conveys his manuscripts to wearied editors the din-ner-table funny man, whose budget of stale jokes is ruthlessly opened at every meal the shiftless poor relation who can not get on by himself, and is always more or less—generally more—dependent on his hard-working connections the wretched specimen of humanity who goes around borrowing small sums of money which he neglects to repay the professional speech-maker, who has a dreary hobby on which he dilates cither in legislative halls, at political meetings, or in private circles the shrewish wife who suggested to the ancient writer the brilliant idea that "it is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house the drinking husband, who would rather fill his own mouth with whiskey than his children's mouths with bread the pertimpudent, cigar smoking boy of the period, who knows everything he ought not to and nothing that he ought the prating professional politician, the unscrupulous speculator, and the man who flings vitriol on ladies' dresses, and the men who leave their families to run away with other men's wives—all these would be well qualified candidates for suicidial notoriety. But they, alas! are the very ones who preserve their sanity to a.degree which is quite discouraeing. For them the dagger, the bowl and the pistol have no attractions. They persist in preferring life, with its exauetless capacity for bothering and distressing their cotemporaries, to the quiet repose of the suicide's tomb. We appesl to them as men and brethren to institute a reform in this matter. Tlii- is specially the age of reform.

Let them bid ns a permanent farewell. Wc will part with them with resignation, for in taking their leave we can assure them, with JIamlel, that they can take nothing we would more willingly part with.

FATAL ACCID XT.

"A ChildvScnlded to Dentil S3* Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a deplorable accident occurred at the residence of John Zapf, 266 North Winston street, by which his youngest son, two years old, was fatally scalded, ^he mother was washing, and had just, emptied a boiler of hot water into a tub standing upon the floor. The little fellow and his playmate were running about the room, and in doing so the former fell backward, into tbe scalding fluid. He was terribly burned on the back and hips, and died from bis injuries at half-pa«t five in the afternoon.—Jnd.Sentinn d5W.

THC MMMSISO OF LIUTH,

A TLOKLFDOF THC MXKTKZ5TH CKXTURT*

Lilith was Adam's first ttift.—thegrndxif the Talmud. She TU tired of strangling the hearts of boys

With the strands of her gold-red hair She was tired of blighting the innocent brows Of.babies lusty and tair So she said tmto God. '*1 pray Thee, Lord,

Let me wander upon the earth. To teach new ways to tho women there Who are weary of home and hearth,"

Bnt the wonderful Mother of Cbrist, who sat On the topmost step of the throne. She looked up to God the Father and laid.

When the words of Lilith were done: "Now-, for the sake of the Son I bore,' Let Thy least handmaiden speak And she bowed her before the father God

In reverence sweet and meek.

Then a great new light went flashing oat Through the mansions many and fair: And the seraphim glanced npGodward then,

Of His sodden smiling aware And the dear Christ said to His mother mild, "Beloved, the Father hears 1" And Lilith, she stretched her lithe whito neck.

And pat the hair from her ears

For the voice of Mary wu sweetand low. Like the wind by the river of God. And she said. My Father, I pray Thee now

Loose not this creature abroad. She hath troubled the sons of Adam sore, Bnt she hath not worked her worst: Oh, let her not vex the daughters of Eve «.

This was not written at first."

Christ looked in tho Father's face, and then Over His lips there flowed The hidden thought of the Lord ofjieaven,

Vfhile the visage ot Lilith glowed "They have forgotten thee, mother mine— These women who deafen the earth Let Adam's rejected teach tjiem now

What a brawling woman is worth."

Straight out ofheaven sped Lilith then. With a cruel scorn in her eyesShe that was first made equal with Adam,

And that fell, being averwise. It is not anew story now, you know: They were too much alike to apreo And she wrangled and foaght with Adanii until

God, pitiful, set him fiee. 3!

And gave him to wife the meeker Eve, Who sinned through womanly trust, Jc And who, in her sorrow for sin. was liko*

A Bweet crushed flower i'the dust. Therefore it had come to pass that Lilith

Had ho entored your prosonco, hotter yet Yon know'tis easy quite to forpct. The same to you as your cast-off gloves Is the memory of your former loves. O, queen ofthe city's soiled doves. ii „i Afraid of a man Why, madamo, fear? Do you beliove tho dead in new forms appear? If it were so. you might fear indeed. Sharaeloss cause of a dastard deed.

A ourse is upon you. Do you hood, «, ,-

Look in your mirror whon you will, There is that should mako your bosom thrill With fear for a phantom standeth thero By the sido of a woman false and fair. Whose beauty is as the 1 owler's snare— A phantom who mocks at your artful sniile. Who grins as you utter your words of guile. And waits with longing to strike you down, Tn dash from your brow the harlot's crown Of charms that havo made you the talk of tho town.

This sentinel watchcr unseen can wait All day long at your very gato: No policeman can drive him away: Forever ho holds a world at bay, A monarch with none to disptito his sway. I toll you, woman, you well may foar When death for his final stroko draws near As yon see tho victory almost won, I think that tho thought of murder done For you, will be one you will like to shun.

Now look out on the sunshine clear, And think of him so lately hero. „Ef. Boforc you know him, you were—what?11 He fed and clothed you, did ho not? Your gratitudo—a pistol shot. i'-Mi See. too. if you dare, that fathor stand Clasping through prison bars the hand Of a son who bears the mark of Cain. The cross of crime your votaries gain Whon thoso you weary of areslais.

The father's woo is sad te see Sadder the son's gay mockery 'if' Of the horrors of a felon's cell Ho wears your colors, madam, well How long—tbojudgo alono may tell.

I leave you. suro that you will roap What you have sown of misery, deep And dark as any Stjgian pool, Whon the devil claims you as his tool. The aptest pupil in his school- ....... —JR. R. cvn.

GKACE GREENWOOD confesses that the San Francisco "ghost window" rather staggered her.

IT is said that Dr. Livingstone has been forced to marry a negro wife somewhere in the interior of Africa, and the^expeditiona in search of him are pushing on toward Ujiji with the hope of meeting him on his bridal tour.

A CALIFORNIA editor declares that he drank egg-nogg on New Year's day and adds that "it took deep root in liis vital parts."

WHAT is the difference between a barn door and George Francis Train? One is a barn-door and tbe other is a darn bore.

THE revival now in progress in some of the Lafayette churches must be a great one. Lingle, of the "Courier," joined the Methodist church on Sunday.

MRS €Kfi,L. AK KOUS.

HCDSON, N. Y., January 23.—It is believed that the man killed on the Hudson River Railroad, near this city, last Sun-( day, was Wm. Parker, of Chicago. HIB remains are awaiting claimants.

MANCHESTER, N. H., January 23.— This forenoon Dennis Shea struck his wife with a flat iron, probably fatally fracturing her skull, and then cut his own throat from ear to ear, dying almost instantly- No cause assigned.

NASHVILLE, TENN ., January 23—Gen. R. S. E^ell is still seriously ill, at his residence, in Maurie county, of pneumonia. His wife died yesterday of the same disease. She was daughter of Judge Campbell, Minister to Russia, under General Jackson, and was born in St. Petersburg.

TRENTON, January 23.—Tbe Trenton Banking Company have offered a reward of $15,000 for the arrest and conviction ofthe burglars who entered the bank on Sunday night, or §3,000 for any one of them. The whole amount stolen is about $30,000.

PHILADELPHIA, JaMary 23.—About $500 in ancient gold coins were unearthed yesterday by laborers engaged in making an examination for the bed of a new boilor, at the back part of a house in North Third street. Some of the coins are very ancient.

ASNAPOLIS.

THE WHARTON TRIAL.

ANNAPOLIS, January 23. Attorney General Syester resumed the argument in the Wharton case this morning, lie reviewed the testimony of medical experts for the defence, criticising particularly the experiments of McGulloeh, and contending that the analysis of Aiken was complete and conclusive. He held that the evidence and circumstances were conclusive that death was caused by tartar emetic, administered by the prisoner. He contend* that tbe production of metal is not necessary to prove this. He concluded his argument at 2 clock. The chief judge then said: "Gentlemen of tbe jury, your verdict will be either guilty or not guilty of murder in the first degree."

The jury then, at 2:05, retired to their room.

CITY GAS WORKS IN RUINS.

Sore hated the daughters of Ere, Because to their mother, beloved Of Adam Our God had given reprieve. Concerning the doings of Lilith on earth,

If you'll look abroad in the land. You'll see'that the caldron of wrath is stirred By ber white and devilish hand. ,, Wherever she findeth a woman'B heart

That is easy to trap or to win, That wilt none of the meekness of Mary mild, She straightway entereth in

And her imago, it multiplieth fast— Too fast for the peace of the world And Lilith meets you at every step,

Ribboned and creped and curledHer marks area skt ptical, brazen brow, And a bard and glittering eye. And a voice that striveth to fill the world

With its clamoring shrill and high.

Ah do you think that a Christ could be

Born of a woman like this? «.} Is there any rest in the arms of such. Whose lips are bitter to kiss? to, Woe for tho little children that cling,

Unwelcomed, upon their hands! They are only thinking of how their deeds May startle the farthest lands-

When tho fire goes out on tho heirth at home. And the chamber is left unkept When a shadow that climbeth from heart to eyo 'Twixthusband and wife hath crept When the wife is shy of the mother estate.

And maidens are counting tho cost,— It behoov os us to think a little upon

The glory that Lilith lost. ail

If we go down to the root of the thing/' We shall see that they put Self first, And that is the sin or sins, for which

Fair Lilith was greatly curst. They are out of the shadow of the Cross, And Self is their idol in life ,-j And it is not the voice of G^d they hear.

But of Adam's demon wife. HOWABD GLYNDON. From the February number of lippincolt't Magazine.

HELEN JOSEPHINE MAVSFIGLD LAWlOiS FI8K8TOKE8.

So you are afraid, and own it, too: I** .That is brave for a woman like you, ni Afrnid of a man pacing tn and fro As lights and shadows come and go. Had he paused, 'twere not so fearful, I trow.

OB ABOUT SIO.OOO.

RICHMOND, IBD., January 23—The City (Jaa Works exploded at six o'clock to-night The engine house and purifying root* *re a total ^reck. No lives lost. The accident was caused by charging the purifier. The gas escaped, and caught fire from an adjoining building. Loss a boot $10,000. !T A, J* .I_^. .I..

1DIAX4POLI8.

IMPORTANT DECISION

'inDiixpous, Jan. 23 —In the Supreme Court today on the constitutionality and validity of an act passed by tbe last Legislature, for the distribution of

(he accumulated sinking fund for educational purposes, to the counties according to population, the unanimous opinion of

the court is that the law is valid, and that the court below erred in holding it

void. The opinion was delivered by Jndge Worden.

EVAKSVILLE. •:.•

HORDED TRIAL.

EVANSVILLE, IND Jan. 23.—Tbe trial of Louis D. Watson for the murder of Jas. P. Shiyock, whose supposed myste rious burial at Cincinnati some weeks ago caused such exoitement, resulted in Watson's acquittal after a trial lasting five days, the jury being out about twenty-one hours-..

I. 5 THKEND. The packing season is practically closed, the number of hogs packed being 18,500. j-"

5 WASHIWGTOJr.

I ("^"'MATRIMONIAL. I WASHINGTON, January 23 —Secretary Robeson and Mrs. Aulick were married this morning. The PI evident, members of the Cabinet and their families, were present. Mr. and Mrs. Robeson have left °-r the North.

ADVERSE REPORT.

The Committeeon the Judiciary to day decided to report adversely on the claims of Brooks Judson, to the island ofYerba Buena, in the Bay of San Fran-

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REQUEST TO WITHDRAW*. ..

The Senate Foreign Committee to day voted to request the Secretary of Slate to withdraw the name of Charles Hale as Assistant Secretary.

ALL QUIET.'

It was stated in a Cabinet meeting today that dispatches from General Emery represented everything quiet in New Orleans.

INVESTIGATION.

In view of the charges made in the newspapers against Potmaster General Cresswell, of dishonesty in making mail contrats, and the gentleman having asked for an investigation, tbe committee have summoned witnesses, and will commence the examination on Thursday.

GAMBLING.

Judge Carter charged the grand jury to-day, i-aying that Washington is infested with gambling places, and it is the duty of the grand jury to lend all its energies to put an end to them. j* "WITHDRAWAL.

The Senate, in executive session, received a message from the President, withdrawing the nomination of Willard Warner as Collector of Customs for the port of Mobile, Alabama.

SENATOR CLAYTON.

The Senatorial committee to investigate the charges against SenatorCJayton, met to day and examined John Edwards, member from the 3d district of Arkansas, who was called by Senator Clayton. j,.„.

APPORTIONMENT.

Under the Apportionment bill reported to the Senate to day, 157,109 is fixed as the number of inhabitants necessary for a member of the House, which gives 243 members of the House. The States which obtain each one representative by fractions are Tennessee, Maine, Maryland, Ohio, New York, North Carolina, Minnesota, West Virginia, Virginia, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, Louisiana, Iowa, California and Geergia. This comparison is made with the apportionment under the census of 1S60,

TWO PER CENT. FUND.

The Governors of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, have joined in an application to Congress to pass a joint resolution .construing the statue of 1857 so as to pay those States the two per cent. fund. The aggregate amount is about ^200,000. Hon. Isaac N. Morris is engaged in the prosecution of this claim. The last presentation of the case is favorably received.

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THE CH1VALKY.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 23.—An exciting shooting affair took place at Charleston, W. Va. last evening, under the following circumstances: During the war the lands of John Clarkson, a wealthy Virginian, were sold for taxes, and yesterday he sued for recovery. During tbe progress of tbe trial Clarkson called the defendant, the United States Marshal, a liar. The other struck Clarkson, and a general melee ensued, in which seven shots were fired. The room was small and over a dozen persons were present. Clarkson was shot four times, one tfound dangerous, being in the breast. All the parties are wealthy and respectable, and the affair cauxes great excitement. a'r fi

PAINFUL ACCIDENT. SAJ ir's

At Chiilicothe yesterday, a young lady, daughter of W. West, while standing on the steps leading down to tbe gate of an iron fence, slipped forward, catching her jaw upon an iron picket her breastpin and ribbon bow-were forced up through the jaw into her mouth, making a iearful wound- ^it is thought she will recover.

GEN. ROSENCKANZ.

A letter appears in the Commercial this morning from General W. S. Rosencranz, in which he denies that he is in favor of a filibustering attempt to annex Mexico, and regrets the announcement of imaginary schemes against Mexico, because they produce false views of the case, needless suffering, and damage to solid interests, by hindering the growth between the United States and eight million of immediate neighbors of commercial interests, which, by our proximity and similarity of political institutions, might otherwise rapidly increase. He deprecates the attempt to thrust our system of government on others regardless of their feelings and cpialifications, and at the risk of precipitating violence. He concludes as follows: I think'thfe intelligent and conscientious of our people decidedly favor a just and liberal policy of friendship towards .Mexico, as the best for both countries. -3

ST.

PAUL.

ANOTHER RUSSIAN CELEBRITY.

ST.'PAUL, MINN., JAN. 23.—WM. Laldatenkoff, Commissioner from Russia to visit the prisons of the United States, arrived here yesterday, with L. L. Merrill, general manager of the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, and other gentlemen from Milwaukee. He insfweted the reform school and other public institutions, nnd^raa banqueted in the evening.

GOLD EXCITKKENT.

Gentlemen in from Manito bar last night, report that the excitement still continue* regarding the discovery of gold in Peace River District, 600 utiles from Fort Edmonton. 'H FROZEN.

A deserter from Fort Pembina was found frozen to death eight miles north of that po-t a lew dajs ago.

roBEiav.

ENGLAND.

CABLE MESSAGES.

LONDON, Jannary 23.—The Liverpoof Chamber of Commerce has memorialized for a reduction of the tariff on cable mesa

REPRIEVED.

Rev. John Silby Watson, wife murderer, has been granted a reprieve. SHIPWRECK. -AF

News has been received of the wreck of the African mail steam packet, of the MacGregor Line, on her way from the Cape to England, on the Guinea Coast. The passengers and crew were saved.

TYCHBORNE TRIAL.

The Tychborne case continues to attract attention. The claimant's chances- are evidently weakening from the effect* of the opening argument for the defense. The court is daily crowded with spectators of high rank. The defense say they have three hundred witnesses, and revelations of an exeiting character are to be looked for.

PEMONAL.

LONDON, Jan. 23.—Hr. E. B. Willyams, Liberal member of Parliament, has* paired off with the CoftFervatiio member, in order to make a brief visri to the United States. He will visit the mines in Utah and expects to be absent two months.

SLAVE TRADE.

A deputation from the Anti Slave Trade Society waited on Earl Granville, andmade representations in regard to Spain's non-observance of the treaty for the^ suppression of the slave trafic. Lord Granville, in reply, said it was indubitable that Spain infringed the treaty, but the matter was too delicate for the interference of England at the present time, Spain having an insurrection on her hands. The British Minister at Madrid was doing his utmost to secure theobservance of all the treaty obligations. His Lordship, in conclusion, said he would consult with his colleagues before taking steps or pronouncing opinions as to the conduct of Spain. ,, ,,

TOLITICAL.

LONDOM, Jan. 23.—The election excitement in

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THE TOBACCO INTEREST.

The Ways and Means Committee are hearing parties interested in the tobacco trade, to-day. Most of them favor a uniform tax of sixteen cents per pound. The committee to-morrow will hear others, and on the 30th will resume the hearing.

RESIGNED.

The President of Ihe Transvaal h'epnblic has resigned his office, and the acting President has repudiated his acta because he had exceeded his powers.

EGYPT.

DROWNED.

ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 23.—The steamship Nadd, on her voyage to this port, encountered a heavy gale. The steamer was crowded with natives, many of whom were on the deck during the thickest part of the storm. The sea swept the decks

from

stem to stern, and 35 of the native passengers were carried overboaid„ and drowned.

FRANCE, ''"f

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I I THE EMPIRE. PARIS, Jan. 23.—It is reported that during the crisis catifcd by the fear of Thiers' withdrawal, agents of the Imperialists circulated among the officers of the army and sought to ascertain their disposition towards the Empire, and whether there was any feeling in favor of restora-

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runs dangerously high It

la reported that the Fenians are organizing mobs to support Blennerliassett, Home Kifle candidate, and that the priest*' are threatened with violence. Bright has written a letter to the O'Donohue, denouncing Home Rule.

DIAMONDS.

Advices Trora Cape Hope reprc^eiff that rich discoveries continues to btf made in the diamond fields. Among others, two diamonds had been found, eme* thousand carats each.

SPAIN. V." DEFEATED.

MADRID, Jan. 23.—S®nor ministerial candidate for President of the National Cortes, was defeated to day. The election of llerrara was made a Cabinet question. His defeat will probably lead to Ministerial Changes.

In the evening, Missouri Lodge, No. 22, and Ebon Ezra Lodge No. 43, gave the members of the Convention a banquet and ball at Harmony Hail, which was a very elegant affair, and participated in by some lour hundred people.

FIKE. J3*''I'

The rag warehouse of Klauber, Jacobs & Co in the southern part of the city, consisting mainly of a number of wooden sheds, was burned last night loss $10,000 to $12,000: insured in the Home Mutual, St. Louis Mutual, and German, all of St. Louis.

POLITICAL.

The Democrat this morning editorially favors .the nomination of lion. James 8. Blaine, the present Speaker of the lower House of Congress, for the Vice Presidency on the Republican ticket. Inability, in integrity, and in general fitness for the position, Mr. Blaine has few cquajs in public life at the present time. No man can be said to have a claim upon this or any other office, but Mr. Blaine possesses qualifications which should give the Vrice Presidency a claim upon iiiin.^,

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Resolved, By the Assembly, the Senate concurring, that the Senators and Representatives in Congress assembled, from the State of Wisconsin, be respectfully requested to use their most efficient efforts to procure at an early day the passage of a law providing for a connection with, and adding to, the piesent Postc ffice system, a complete system of telegraphy, so as to bring within the reach

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llerrara,

ST. LOVIH.

SOCIETY MEETING.

ST.LOUIS, Jan. 23.—The Order ofthe Bnai Brith continued their session yesterday, but the proceedings were confined almost entirely to matters of interest of the Order. The only subject of public interest was a series of resolutions, offered by J. Welsh, of Cincinnati, and signed by every member of the Convention, deprecating in strong terms, the introduction of theological matters into the Constitution of the United States, or the interference of doctrinal questions with the unlimited prerogative of religious liberty in America. These resolutions were unanimously adopted.

THE LEGISLATURE. .'

MADISON, WIS, Jan. 23.—The following resolution was adopted in the Assembly to-day by {i vote of 43 to 21:

and

means

fit the great mass of the people, this mo^t de.-iireable means ofcommunica tion ali-o a memorial to Congrers to repeal the bankrupt law.

HUNCF HIMSELF.

An old German named August Renter, 72 years of age, was found hanging to a limb of a tree in the town of Medina, in this county, having committed suicide. He was missing from the bouse from December 10th, and it is supposed he has hung there since that time.

WINTER. *IS

Weather very cold here.

lOLlMIilS

LEGISLATIVE.

COLUMBUS, O, January 23.—In the House to-dav tbe House bill to forbid shooting of wild game on property of another, except by permission, was

bills

inuoduced to allow Toledo to

build- railroads by.taxation, under pro visions similar to that of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad hill aiso a bilj to

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ofit i" 'he sum of 33,000, and to keep a registry of all persons to whom they mav sell intoxicating drinks also a bill 5 to"'fix

the

compensation of Prosecuting j.

Attorneys, and do away with all percentage*. also a bill to authorize the taking of depositions on causes in error also a bill to authorize the employment of short hand reporters in all courts of Cincinnati when either party to the suit require it.,,

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MILITARY.

VENEZUELA, LA GUAYRA, Januarys. ,, Ibeeieging

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—Gen. Gavman Blanco is -an Fernandigo De Apura, the strongest work of the revolutionists- His intention is to capture the enti.e .tvol.HlonHry armyv

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